I will come on to the point about tax avoidance. One option open to the Government to protect revenue from the 50p rate was to do more on tax avoidance. This is a Government who like to trumpet their record on tax avoidance, but they certainly ducked the opportunity when it came to dealing with potential avoidance in relation to the 50p rate.
Finance (No.2) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Shabana Mahmood
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 8 April 2014.
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and
Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Finance (No.2) Bill.
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