On the subject of tax avoidance, the Minister will know of my support for the Government’s willingness to close the tax loophole on the sales of commercial property by overseas companies. As my hon. Friend the Member for Easington (Grahame Morris) said, the Paradise papers show some of the ways in which tax is being avoided, including through holding companies in Luxembourg. When I asked the Minister about that before, he did not seem to know about the Luxembourg treaty and how it could affect this policy. What are his plans to address the problems created by Luxembourg treaty, which could see us losing out on £5.5 billion a year of the tax collected through his changes?
Finance (No. 2) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Stella Creasy
(Labour)
in the House of Commons on Monday, 11 December 2017.
It occurred during Debate on bills on Finance (No. 2) Bill.
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