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Finance (No. 2) Bill

Proceeding contribution from David Gauke (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Wednesday, 25 March 2015. It occurred during Debate on bills on Finance (No. 2) Bill.

My hon. Friend does not want to revisit old debates, but I tempted to give a response that I suspect I have given him before. The general anti-abuse rule is a big step forward, and it was absolutely right that this Government introduced it. Other Governments had considered it but felt that it was not the right thing to do. However, it is there to complement the existing measures, and we will want to see how the GAAR

works over time rather than rush to judgment. I do not believe that a future Conservative Government would want to risk opening up new loopholes because of uncertainty about exactly how the GAAR applies. It is of course an anti-abuse rule and sets a reasonably high bar for behaviour covered by it, and I suspect my hon. Friend agrees that that is right because of its broad nature. We will have to wait and see before I make any commitment to repealing various targeted anti-avoidance rules.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
594 c1442 
Session
2014-15
Chamber / Committee
House of Commons chamber
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