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HMRC Closures

Proceeding contribution from Mel Stride (Conservative) in the House of Commons on Thursday, 2 November 2017. It occurred during Backbench debate on HMRC Closures.

If it is a specific department—I am sure it is—I am happy to get back to him on that point. I will move to another point relating to what the hon. Gentleman said earlier in his speech. When he talked about clamping down on tax avoidance, he very much started to drift into—understandably so—complex tax avoidance. He mentioned the Cayman Islands. I do not think he mentioned trusts specifically, but I suspect that would be a part of the mix of his thinking, which is exactly my point. If we are going to start targeting that kind of tax avoidance, it is far better to be in a well-resourced hub, the nature of which I have described already, rather than to have myriad other offices around the place. That is the nature of the tax challenge, so we have to have a configuration that is appropriate to meet it.

Type
Proceeding contribution
Reference
630 c462WH 
Session
2017-19
Chamber / Committee
Westminster Hall
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