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HANSARDLoan ChargeI have made it very clear, as have the Government, over a long period of time—at least since 2016 when these measures were first brought into effect, which is before I arrived in…21 May 2019HANSARDLoan ChargeI entirely stand by my earlier remarks about the measures not being in the least retrospective. Of course, I cannot comment on the tax affairs of the individual that my right hon.…21 May 2019HANSARDLoan ChargeDisguised remuneration is an aggressive and contrived form of tax avoidance that involves a loan, which there is never any intention of repaying, being routed via a low or no-tax…21 May 2019HANSARDLoan ChargeIf we include the loans, the average earnings of those who have been involved in this egregious tax avoidance is twice our country’s national average wage. There is no need for…21 May 2019HANSARDLoan ChargeI refute the suggestion that anybody is forced into making a tax-avoidance arrangement. If something looks too good to be true, it generally means that it is just that. Of the…21 May 2019HANSARDVAT (Place of Supply of Services) (Supplies of Electronic, Telecommunications and Broadcasting Services) (Amendment and Revocation) (EU Exit) Order 2019
Finance Act 2011, Schedule 23 (Data-Gathering Powers) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
Customs (Records) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019I thank the hon. Members for Stalybridge and Hyde and for Glasgow Central for their contributions. I will endeavour to go through their points. The hon. Member for Stalybridge and…14 May 2019HANSARDVAT (Place of Supply of Services) (Supplies of Electronic, Telecommunications and Broadcasting Services) (Amendment and Revocation) (EU Exit) Order 2019
Finance Act 2011, Schedule 23 (Data-Gathering Powers) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
Customs (Records) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019The additional burden, such as it might be, would be registering and being prepared to provide information that is already being collected. In their day-to-day transactions, those…14 May 2019HANSARDVAT (Place of Supply of Services) (Supplies of Electronic, Telecommunications and Broadcasting Services) (Amendment and Revocation) (EU Exit) Order 2019
Finance Act 2011, Schedule 23 (Data-Gathering Powers) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
Customs (Records) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the Value Added Tax (Place of Supply of Services) (Supplies of Electronic, Telecommunication and Broadcasting Services) (Amendment…14 May 2019HANSARDVAT (Place of Supply of Services) (Supplies of Electronic, Telecommunications and Broadcasting Services) (Amendment and Revocation) (EU Exit) Order 2019
Finance Act 2011, Schedule 23 (Data-Gathering Powers) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019
Customs (Records) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019It is a pleasure to serve under your chairmanship, Mr Sharma. The Value Added Tax (Place of Supply of Services) (Supplies of Electronic, Telecommunication and Broadcasting…14 May 2019HANSARDValue Added Tax (Tour Operators) (amendment) (EU exit) Regulations 2019I am grateful to the hon. Member for Oxford East for her usual thorough interrogation of the issues at hand.09 May 2019HANSARDValue Added Tax (Tour Operators) (amendment) (EU exit) Regulations 2019The hon. Lady’s colleague says she is very good, and I concur entirely with that sentiment. I am pleased that the hon. Lady agrees with the premise of what we are attempting to…09 May 2019HANSARDValue Added Tax (Tour Operators) (amendment) (EU exit) Regulations 2019I beg to move, That the Committee has considered the Value Added Tax (Tour Operators) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (S.I., 2019, No. 73). It is nice to see that we are…09 May 2019HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Termination Awards and Sporting Testimonials) BillI thank all right hon. and hon. Members for their contributions to this important debate, which is narrow in scope, as the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury pointed out, but…30 Apr 2019HANSARDNational Insurance Contributions (Termination Awards and Sporting Testimonials) BillThe Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury has just reminded me that there has been a lot of information out there—we have, not least, written to Members to explain the background to…30 Apr 2019HANSARDLoan ChargeI have little time and I must cover the ground. HMRC also has a vulnerable customers team available to provide specialist, one-to-one support for vulnerable customers in need of…11 Apr 2019HANSARDJusticeThis Government have made very significant progress in reducing the burden of taxation on the low paid, including by recently increasing the personal allowance to £12,500—thus…11 Apr 2019HANSARDLoan ChargeI welcome the return of this debate, which was so interestingly interrupted by rain—I think that is about the only matter raised for which I have not been blamed at some point, as…11 Apr 2019HANSARDJusticeThis Government have made very significant progress in reducing the burden of taxation on the low paid, including by recently increasing the personal allowance to £12,500—thus…11 Apr 2019HANSARDLoan ChargeI am afraid I will not. I want to make progress, as there is a lot to cover and little time. For the benefit of the House, let me set out the heart of how these schemes work, so…11 Apr 2019HANSARDLoan ChargeI will not give way just yet. My second point is that the very nature of this means of payment, of tax avoidance, is that it involves a loan that is still outstanding—those loans…11 Apr 2019