Tax Avoidance

The hon. Lady is quite right that the news is coming out this week, but is it not fair to say tha...

I am grateful to the hon. Gentleman for his intervention. He and I have had a number of discussio...

Is the hon. Lady’s case that Ministers should have direct and executive responsibility and decisi...

The hon. Gentleman is completely missing the point about the debate we have been having this week...

When David Hartnett said that the whole nation knows we had our disc from the Swiss, is it concei...

My hon. Friend makes a powerful point. I agree and I shall come on to that a little later in my s...

Alongside the appalling impact of the tax gap on our public services and the public finances, doe...

My hon. Friend makes an incredibly powerful point. All businesses and all individual taxpayers ne...

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I am going to make a little progress; then I shall give way again.

The famous Swiss deal be...

Not so long ago, the Opposition opposed the Government measure on disguised remuneration, effecti...

I am surprised the hon. Gentleman has not done his homework. If he were to read the debate on tha...

I thank my hon. Friend for giving way. Has she thought that had the Government collected all the ...

I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his intervention, which goes to the central point: we need to...

Does the hon. Lady not accept that Labour were lax on tax? Look at the arrangements for hedge fun...

The hon. and learned Gentleman should look at last week’s Financial Times report on tax avoidance...

Does this not come down to a question of priorities? In the current economic climate, money for p...

My hon. Friend makes a powerful point. I entirely agree with him, and it is something I shall com...

I am grateful to the shadow Minister for giving way; she has been generous in taking intervention...

I shall deal with the substantive thrust of that intervention when I come to the general anti-abu...

My hon. Friend is making some excellent points. Has she contrasted this Government’s aggressive s...

My hon. Friend makes a powerful point. We should pursue with equal vigour all those who game the ...

Richard Brooks is a fine journalist for Private Eye, not the BBC, and has done seminal work in in...

There are real questions to be answered about how HMRC conducts its investigations and the rigour...

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I will not give way; I want to make some progress. Thirdly, we have had much discussion relating ...

Will the hon. Lady give way?

Of course.

On the quoted eurobond exemption, the hon. Lady will be aware—we have debated the issue on a numb...

At the risk of repeating our previous debate about the quoted eurobond exemption, I said at the t...

Will the hon. Gentleman give way?

I will not, because I am going to make some more progress.

Thirdly, we have said that we wi...

I welcome the proposal for an anti-tax-dodging Bill, to which the motion refers. Does the hon. La...

I agree that we need a public form of country-by-country reporting. In government, we would seek ...

I beg to move an amendment, to leave out from “House” to the end of the Question and add:

“...

I am glad that the Financial Secretary to the Treasury is giving us some answers, although they a...

Let me put it this way. It was, and is, the case that UK residents can have bank accounts in Swit...

If the information was in the public domain, will the Minister answer the question that the Prime...

The position is this: Lord Green was appointed in January 2011 and at that point the information ...

I am grateful to the Minister for giving way; he is being generous. Does he agree that Lord Green...

It is a matter for Lord Green as to what he says. It is clear that the Government have taken the ...

The Minister will be aware that in November 2012, a senior HMRC official who was being questioned...

Let me address the point about decisions to make a prosecution. First, HMRC determines whether to...

The Minister continues to insist that Lord Green had neither knowledge of nor involvement in thes...

I make the point that I have made before: there is no suggestion and no evidence that Lord Green ...

The Minister made the important point in earlier exchanges that there should never be any politic...

My hon. Friend makes an extremely good point, and the fact that some Opposition Members do not ap...

I agree with the point made by the hon. Member for Cities of London and Westminster (Mark Field),...

I have nothing further to say on that point. The position is that Lord Green was appointed as a t...

We did not have the information.

The hon. Gentleman says from the Front Bench that the Opposition did not have the information, bu...

Will the Minister give way?

I am going to make a little progress. Since we came to power in 2010, we have made a huge investm...

Given that list, will the Minister explain to the House why tax avoidance schemes used by multina...

I will happily deal with that point. Indeed, if the hon. Gentleman will forgive me, I will turn t...

Will the hon. Gentleman also address the controlled foreign companies rules that were introduced ...

The CFC regime is part of corporation tax. The hon. Gentleman makes my point for me. As a consequ...

I am aware of the international dimension, but HMRC has been criticised frequently for its timidi...

The first point to make is that it is a matter for HMRC to challenge in accordance with the law a...

I welcome the diverted profits tax. Does my hon. Friend agree that there is a double problem, whi...

I agree with my hon. Friend, who brings great expertise on these matters to the House. There are ...

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Order. There will be a five-minute limit on all Back-Bench speeches, starting from now. We have j...

I start by congratulating my right hon. and hon. Friends on tabling the motion. The subject is on...

It is understandable, especially this close to a general election, that political fervour over ta...

HSBC had a lot of customers in Switzerland with secret bank accounts, and it helped them and cons...

Will the right hon. Gentleman give way?

No I will not, because other Members want to speak.

Between them, the big four banks have 1...

This whole area of tax ranks as another mess that the Government are having to clear up. We inher...

The hon. Gentleman should complete the quotation. I am not usually regarded as the greatest defen...

I accept that correction. On Labour’s watch, the rate of capital gains tax was 18%, and it had be...

I am pleased to follow the hon. Member for Redcar (Ian Swales). Much of what he said, apart from ...

I hate to interrupt the hon. Lady, but does she realise that tax is paid on profit and not turnov...

I will come to that point.

Facebook’s turnover was £200 million, and its tax payment £0.25 ...

indicated assent.

I am glad that the hon. Gentleman is now nodding his agreement.

That is a way of moving mon...

It is a real pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Bishop Auckland (Helen Goodman), who always m...

Those points are important, but capital gains tax is equally important. As the hon. Member for Re...

That is indeed a huge change. The Government have also supported entrepreneurs with entrepreneurs...

A further absurdity of the Labour position is the comments that have been made about tax havens. ...

My hon. Friend makes a powerful point. If I wanted to avoid tax on an industrial scale, I would n...

In following the hon. Member for Dover (Charlie Elphicke), I am conscious that it is usually Nort...

It is a pleasure to follow the hon. Member for Foyle (Mark Durkan), whose contribution, as always...

I also represent a constituency to which financial services are important, but should we not be d...

I am glad the hon. Gentleman raised that point. He and I agree about the importance of financial ...

I agree with the hon. Gentleman. If the hon. Lady wishes to intervene, she should rise to the Dis...

I am sorry, Madam Deputy Speaker, you are quite right to admonish me. The policy of having a publ...

I am happy to quote the whole of the correspondence between the Labour Chief Minister of Gibralta...

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Order. It is now necessary for the time limit to be reduced to four minutes for the remaining Bac...

Members will recall that earlier today, during Prime Minister’s Question Time, a question was ask...

I want to say a few words about the international dimension of what we have been discussing today...

My hon. Friend is making a clear and powerful speech. Does he agree that, with £24 billion collec...

I agree entirely with my hon. Friend’s comments.

The Tax Journal sets out its analysis of a...

Nobody likes paying tax, but we all want our services, such as the NHS, to be there when we need ...

The Opposition motion does not mention the need adequately to resource HMRC. Could that be becaus...

We believe it is important to resource HMRC properly, and we would like to see it much better res...

As my hon. Friend the Member for Birmingham, Ladywood (Shabana Mahmood) said in her opening remar...

Does my hon. Friend agree that it is absolutely essential that if people have swindled their tax,...

I think that we all could cite examples of where small businesses and others in our local constit...

Like my hon. Friend the Financial Secretary to the Treasury, I shall begin by highlighting the fa...

We have been calling for Lord Green to make a full and frank statement. No allegations have been ...

Let us be quite clear on the point regarding Lord Green: that is now a matter for him. He is also...

Will the Exchequer Secretary give way?

No, I will not give way because of time. The right hon. Gentleman has had his chance to speak in ...

On a point of order, Madam Deputy Speaker. The Government have allowed a derisory amount of time ...

I can certainly give the hon. Lady advice on that matter. I am about to put the programme motion ...