The Minister mentioned HMRC. One of the things the Government have done over many years now is to squeeze HMRC, which has fewer offices and not enough staff. Does he not accept that every single additional tax officer collects many times their own salary? If the Government were serious about tax collection, they would expand HMRC substantially.
Finance (No. 2) Bill
Proceeding contribution from
Kelvin Hopkins
(Independent (affiliation))
in the House of Commons on Tuesday, 19 December 2017.
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Committee of the Whole House (HC) on Finance (No. 2) Bill.
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