I thank the Minister for giving way and for his very helpful clarification. It is worth putting it on the record that the opportunities for avoidance of this particular tax, such as time shifting, charging different expenses and reclassifying income or capital gains, are simply not there against a fixed asset of this nature. Although I accept his clarification around those behavioural effects, it is worth saying that the public will not have any opportunities to avoid this tax in the way that they might avoid other taxes.
Stamp Duty Land Tax Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Ian Swales
(Liberal Democrat)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 12 January 2015.
It occurred during Debate on bills
and
Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Stamp Duty Land Tax Bill.
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