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HANSARDBetting and Gaming Duty: HorseracingIt is excellent to hear my hon. Friend speak so passionately about Doncaster racecourse and the wider sector, and I reassure her that we will absolutely continue close dialogue…01 Jul 2025HANSARDHigh Net Worth IndividualsWhen considering fiscal measures or financial changes, the figures that matter are those provided by the Office for Budget Responsibility. The OBR has certified that the non-dom…01 Jul 2025HANSARDHigh Net Worth IndividualsMy hon. Friend is absolutely correct that our changes to the non-dom reporting regime are essential to raise billions of pounds to support the public finances and get our public…01 Jul 2025HANSARDTax Evasion: High Street BusinessesThe year before we came to power, the tax gap stood at £47 billion. That is unacceptable, which is why we announced the most ambitious-ever package of tax gap measures in the…01 Jul 2025HANSARDTax Evasion: High Street BusinessesMy hon. Friend is a powerful campaigner and advocate for tackling those who do not play by the rules. While I am unable to comment on individual taxpayer affairs because of my…01 Jul 2025HANSARDBetting and Gaming Duty: HorseracingOne of the principles behind the reforms that we are looking to make to the gambling duty is to tackle issues of compliance by simplifying the system. The consultation is open at…01 Jul 2025HANSARD VAT Registration Threshold: SMEsIt is a pleasure to speak with you as Chair, Mr Vickers. I congratulate the hon. Member for Mid Leicestershire for securing this debate. I feel that I am letting the side down by…24 Jun 2025HANSARD VAT Registration Threshold: SMEsI do not recall the hon. Gentleman ever opposing extra investment in the national health service during his interventions in the main Chamber, because, of course, the decisions…24 Jun 2025HANSARD VAT Registration Threshold: SMEsI thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. He referred to the impact of the Windsor framework, which as he correctly pointed out, imposes an upper limit of just over £90,000 on…24 Jun 2025HANSARD VAT Registration Threshold: SMEsI will turn to the questions that the hon. Gentleman and other hon. Members have raised about VAT reliefs in a moment, but I will first finish the point about where the VAT…24 Jun 2025HANSARD VAT Registration Threshold: SMEsI think the hon. Gentleman must be forgetting the recent history of this country’s economy when his party was in charge, because the many small businesses that I have met are not…24 Jun 2025HANSARD VAT Registration Threshold: SMEsI would typically ask businesses’ permission before I named them in the House of Commons, but I can reassure hon. Members that in conversations with businesses in my constituency,…24 Jun 2025HANSARD Business Rates Relief: High-street BusinessesI would challenge the right hon. and learned Lady’s use of language, but that issue is rather outside the scope of a debate on business rates. As I was saying, we published a…04 Jun 2025HANSARD Business Rates Relief: High-street BusinessesIt is a pleasure to speak in this debate with you in the Chair, Ms Jardine. I thank hon. Members for their warm welcome. I want to extend my thanks, as many others have, to the…04 Jun 2025HANSARD Business Rates Relief: High-street BusinessesI thank the hon. Gentleman for his question. As I set out, the new lower multipliers of RHL properties will apply to all RHL properties with rateable values below £500,000. There…04 Jun 2025HANSARD Business Rates Relief: High-street BusinessesI thank the hon. Gentleman for raising the issue of the VOA. Its performance is very important for businesses across the country. I am sure that he will have seen our recent…04 Jun 2025HANSARD Business Rates Relief: High-street BusinessesThe permanently lower tax rates will come in in April 2026, so the intervening year is the year that we are currently in. That rate has been set by the Chancellor. The Chancellor…04 Jun 2025HANSARD Inheritance Tax: Family-owned BusinessesI reassure my hon. Friend that I, and the wider team of officials, have had a number of meetings with representatives of family businesses and the agricultural and farming sector.…03 Jun 2025HANSARD Inheritance Tax: Family-owned BusinessesGot it. To conclude my remarks on the wider support that we are giving to businesses, I also draw hon. Members’ attention to the fact that we committed in the “Corporate Tax…03 Jun 2025HANSARD Inheritance Tax: Family-owned BusinessesIt is a pleasure, Sir John, to speak in this debate with you as Chair, and I congratulate the hon. Member for Mid Dunbartonshire (Susan Murray) on securing it—I notice that the…03 Jun 2025