I fully agree with the thrust of the hon. Gentleman's argument, but he might be aware that the Select Committee on the Treasury received certain information from Barclays bank about its tax avoidance schemes. The schemes that it developed are extremely complex, and it took them to HMRC and got the staff there to look at them and basically approve them, because it did not have the resources and everything else to go through it all, whopped it back to its clients and said, "We put this to HMRC, they think it's okay and now we have all sorts of ways of trying to alleviate that"—
Finance Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Colin Breed
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 7 July 2009.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Finance Bill.
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