Written Answers — Treasury: Tax Avoidance (30 Jan 2013)
David Gauke: Treasury Ministers meet regularly with the Secretary of State for International Development to discuss a range of topics. The key issue is ensuring that developing countries have the...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Tax Avoidance (30 Jan 2013)
David Gauke: The Disclosure of Tax Avoidance Schemes (DOTAS) is highly specific to the UK in that the requirement to disclose is restricted to arrangements defined in UK legislation, and cannot be...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Personal Income: Dudley (30 Jan 2013)
David Gauke: The model which HM Treasury uses to assess the impact of policy decisions relies on survey data which does not contain sufficient information to provide a breakdown of impacts by town or...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Limited Liability (30 Jan 2013)
David Gauke: As a supervisor under the Money Laundering Regulations 2007, HM Revenue and Customs imposes penalties on supervised businesses for breaches of those regulations. HMRC records penalties by...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Limited Liability (30 Jan 2013)
David Gauke: I refer my hon. Friend to the answer given on 29 January 2012, Official Report, column 732W. The total figures for requests sent to all states about limited liability partnerships, for...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Limited Liability (30 Jan 2013)
David Gauke: HM Revenue and Customs does not hold the information in the format requested. HMRC's management information does not include data on the location of individuals linked to limited liability...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Income Tax (30 Jan 2013)
David Gauke: In the tax year 2010-11, the latest year for which outturn data are available, there were 24.0 million taxpayers who received the majority of their taxable income from employment or...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Capital Allowances (30 Jan 2013)
David Gauke: In the autumn statement the Government announced a temporary ten-fold increase in the annual investment allowance (AIA) to £250,000 from 1 January 2013 to support investment in plant and...
View ArticleOral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Tax System (29 Jan 2013)
David Gauke: Over this Parliament, we have introduced 31 measures to tackle tax avoidance, including loophole closures. This year, our work will focus on strengthening the disclosure regime, consulting...
View ArticleWritten Ministerial Statements — Treasury: Finance Bill 2013 (Draft...
David Gauke: The Government are today publishing draft legislation for inclusion in Finance Bill 2013, in addition to that published on 11 December. The draft legislation will be open for technical...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Taxation: Northern Ireland (31 Jan 2013)
David Gauke: The information is as follows: (a) Estimates for personal tax liabilities in Northern Ireland in the five tax years to 2009-10 are shown in the following table. Northern Ireland revenue...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Revenue and Customs: Telephone Services (31 Jan...
David Gauke: HMRC has not made a recent detailed assessment of the feasibility and cost of switching HM Revenue and Customs' public contact telephone numbers to a free phone service (0800 numbers)....
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Revenue and Customs (31 Jan 2013)
David Gauke: The number of staff employed in HM Revenue and Customs in March (a) 2010, (b) 2011 and (c) 2012 is shown in the following table. We have also included total staff numbers for 2005, 2006,...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Double Taxation: Brazil (31 Jan 2013)
David Gauke: Officials have discussed prospects for a comprehensive double taxation agreement with their Brazilian counterparts on several occasions, most recently in November 2012. However, owing to...
View ArticleOral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Tax Simplification (29 Jan 2013)
David Gauke: The Government are committed to simplifying the tax system. Since 2010, we have set up the Office of Tax Simplification and have acted on a range of its recommendations. The Government are...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Tax Yields (1 Feb 2013)
David Gauke: HM Revenue and Customs publish total receipts for the United Kingdom on the HMRC Website at: http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/statistics/receipts.htm Estimates of the proportion paid by Northern...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Tax Evasion and Fraud (1 Feb 2013)
David Gauke: On 14 January 2013 I deposited an Explanatory Memorandum on the Commission's communications to tackle tax fraud and tax evasion. The Government is fully committed to clamping down on those...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Revenue and Customs (4 Feb 2013)
David Gauke: In the Large Business Service area 26.72% of employees are over the age of 55. The Large Business Service is responsible for over 790 of the largest businesses that pay a significant...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: National Insurance Contributions (4 Feb 2013)
David Gauke: Estimates of the annual receipts accruing from simple changes to national insurance rates and limits can be approximated from Table 1.6 “Direct effects of illustrative tax changes”,...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Minimum Wage (4 Feb 2013)
David Gauke: The number of complaints about non-payment of minimum wage for the period requested is in the following table: Financial year Number of complaints received 2009-10 2,850 2010-11 1,981...
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