Children and Families Bill: New Clause 6 — Staff to child ratios:...
...Jonathan Ashworth Ian Austin Adrian Bailey William Bain Ed Balls Mr Kevin Barron Hugh Bayley Margaret Beckett Dame Anne Begg Hilary Benn Luciana Berger Clive Betts Tom Blenkinsop Paul Blomfield Mr...
View ArticlePublic Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 74 - Manufactured payments:...
David Gauke: The clause and the schedule make changes to the tax rules for manufactured payments to simplify the legislation and reduce opportunities for tax avoidance. The existing rules are extremely...
View ArticlePublic Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 73 - Manufactured payments: stock...
David Gauke: Clause 73 makes changes to block tax-avoidance schemes involving stock lending arrangements, as the hon. Lady points out. Those schemes claim to exploit a weakness in the current...
View ArticlePublic Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 75 - Relationship between rules...
David Gauke: The clause makes changes to ensure that the rules allowing and disallowing deductions for trade and property businesses cannot be exploited for avoidance purposes. Towards the end of last...
View ArticlePublic Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 76 - Close companies (11 Jun 2013)
David Gauke: I thank the hon. Lady for her questions. I will start with when the loopholes were identified. HMRC had been aware of the first two loopholes for some time. It has seen increasing numbers...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Revenue and Customs (12 Jun 2013)
David Gauke: HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) introduced its Large Business Strategy in 2006 following the Review of Links with Large Business. The model of large business relationship management...
View ArticleOpposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day] — Protecting Children Online (12 Jun 2013)
...Ashworth Ian Austin Adrian Bailey William Bain Ed Balls Mr Kevin Barron Hugh Bayley Margaret Beckett Dame Anne Begg Hilary Benn Luciana Berger Clive Betts Roberta Blackman-Woods Paul Blomfield Mr...
View ArticleOpposition Day — [2nd Allotted Day] — Protecting Children Online: EU Police,...
...Ashworth Ian Austin Adrian Bailey William Bain Ed Balls Mr Kevin Barron Hugh Bayley Margaret Beckett Hilary Benn Luciana Berger Clive Betts Roberta Blackman-Woods Tom Blenkinsop Paul Blomfield Mr...
View ArticleDeferred Division: Tribunals and Inquiries (12 Jun 2013)
Division number 26 See full list of votes (From The Public Whip)Aye Nigel Adams Adam Afriyie Peter Aldous Danny Alexander David Amess Stuart Andrew Mr James Arbuthnot Tony Baldry Harriett Baldwin...
View ArticleWritten Ministerial Statements — Treasury: Double Taxation Convention and...
David Gauke: A double taxation convention and protocol with respect to bank taxes with the Netherlands was signed on 12 June 2013. The text of the convention and protocol has been deposited in the...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Unpaid Taxes: Football (13 Jun 2013)
David Gauke: There are fewer than five English and Welsh football clubs that have an up-to-date arrangement with HMRC covering their PAYE or NIC deductions for either of the tax years (a) 2012-13 and...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Revenue and Customs: Nurseries (13 Jun 2013)
David Gauke: In 2012, HMRC announced the closure of eight nurseries that were on HMRC premises. These nurseries had varying levels of occupancy and many of the nursery places were available to non-HMRC...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Revenue and Customs: Nurseries (13 Jun 2013)
David Gauke: HMRC wrote to affected parents on 7 May, inviting them to face-to-face consultations about what the impact of not re-tendering the nursery provision in three sites in the North East...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Revenue and Customs (13 Jun 2013)
David Gauke: HMRC does not count letters separately from other incoming post such as certain forms, faxes and email. HMRC periodically publishes performance statistics which include: the proportion of...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Paye (13 Jun 2013)
David Gauke: The latest version of the full business case for PAYE Real Time Information (RTI) shows a cost to Government of £273.84 million for the spending review period to March 2015.
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Income Tax: Scotland (13 Jun 2013)
David Gauke: HMRC expects to be able to provide a more accurate estimate of the operational cost of implementing the Scottish rate of income tax later in 2013-14 when the planned work on designing the...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Income Tax: Scotland (13 Jun 2013)
David Gauke: Work to implement the Scottish rate is being managed by HMRC's implementation project. Board members, including the Scottish Government, Scotland Office and HM Treasury are involved in...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Income Tax: Scotland (13 Jun 2013)
David Gauke: Data on the number of (a) higher and (b) additional rate taxpayers above state pension age at parliamentary constituency level are not published, due to small sample sizes.
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Income Tax: Scotland (13 Jun 2013)
David Gauke: The estimated HMRC project costs for 2013-14 equate to around 11 full-time staff. However this draws on the expertise of over 75 HMRC staff and includes contributions from individuals on...
View ArticlePublic Bill Committee: Finance Bill: Clause 91 - Charge to tax (13 Jun 2013)
David Gauke: The hon. Lady is raising a number of probing questions, which I will respond to shortly in my remarks, but given that she has mentioned the ambition of her party to raise £2 billion from a...
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