Written Answers — Treasury: Taxation: Self-assessment (23 Jan 2014)
David Gauke: HMRC takes the security of online tax returns very seriously. The Department is aware of phishing attacks that invite customers to submit their personal returns via websites purporting to...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Tax Avoidance (23 Jan 2014)
David Gauke: As explained in my answer of 9 January 2014, Official Report, column 295W, under their statutory duty to maintain taxpayer confidentiality, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is unable to...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Tax Avoidance (23 Jan 2014)
David Gauke: HM Revenue and Customs' compliance activity covers all aspects of compliance behaviour from error through to avoidance, evasion and organised criminal attack. HMRC takes a risk based...
View ArticleUpcoming Business – Commons: Select Committee (30 Jan 2014)
Welsh Affairs: Pre-legislative scrutiny of the draft Wales Bill. 1:30 pm; Room 15, Palace of WestminsterWitnesses: David Gauke MP, Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury and Rt Hon David Jones MP,...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Taxation: Self-assessment (27 Jan 2014)
David Gauke: HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) takes customer confidence in their online services very seriously. Ministers have asked a cross-Government group, at which HMRC is a participant, to work with...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Tax Allowances: Business (27 Jan 2014)
David Gauke: Employees may receive financial advice in respect of the employee shareholder status. Details of the number of employee shareholders or number of companies offering the employee...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Revenue and Customs (27 Jan 2014)
David Gauke: During the financial year 2012-13 additional revenue collected totalled £248.7 million. Payment by commission ensures good value for money.
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Revenue and Customs (27 Jan 2014)
David Gauke: It is not possible to compare the cost of the HMRC and debt collection agency operations, as HMRC does not use the end to end services of debt collection agencies.
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Revenue and Customs (27 Jan 2014)
David Gauke: HMRC has engaged the services of debt collection agencies to pursue debts which people have not resolved in response to HMRC’s contacts, as an alternative to HMRC taking enforcement action...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: National Insurance Contributions: Barrow in...
David Gauke: Annual breakdown of the number of employers that applied for national insurance holiday throughout the scheme in Barrow and Furness constituency is as follows: Tax year1 Barrow and Furness...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Employee Ownership (27 Jan 2014)
David Gauke: There is no requirement for someone using the employee shareholder status to register with any Government Department or agency.
View ArticleEuropean Union (Approvals) Bill [Lords]: Clause 1 — Approval of draft...
Division number 195 See full list of votes (From The Public Whip)Aye Nigel Adams Adam Afriyie Peter Aldous David Amess Stuart Andrew Mr James Arbuthnot Norman Baker Sir Tony Baldry Harriett Baldwin...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Revenue and Customs (28 Jan 2014)
David Gauke: HMRC's direct and indirect spend with SMEs from 2009-10 to 2012-13 has been reported on GOV.UK: https://www.gov.uk/government/policies/buying-and-managing-g...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Income Tax (28 Jan 2014)
David Gauke: I refer the hon. Member to the answer given earlier by the Chief Secretary to the Treasury, the right hon. Member for Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey (Danny Alexander).
View ArticleOral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Apprenticeships (Child Benefit and Tax...
David Gauke: The Government continue to support apprenticeships by funding 16-to-18 apprenticeships for every employer who wants to offer them and every young person who secures a place, and by...
View ArticleOral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Private Sector Job Creation (28 Jan 2014)
David Gauke: The latest data published by the Office for National Statistics on public and private sector employment are available up to September 2013. Between the first quarter of 2010 and the third...
View ArticleOral Answers to Questions — Treasury: Sugary Drinks (Taxation) (28 Jan 2014)
David Gauke: There are difficulties of principle and practice with using tax instruments to promote public health. Unlike smoking, where any level of consumption can have damaging effects, the...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Tax Allowances: Agriculture (29 Jan 2014)
David Gauke: Many of the features of the tax system which are aimed at encouraging business investment and supporting growth apply to share farming as they do to other forms of farming and to...
View ArticleWritten Answers — Treasury: Corporation Tax: Barrow in Furness (29 Jan 2014)
David Gauke: Since 2010 the Government has cut the main rate of corporation tax from 28% to 23%. It will fall further to 20% by April 2015. The small profits rate has also been cut to 20%. These...
View ArticleOpposition Day — [19th Allotted Day] — UNHCR Syrian Refugees Programme:...
...Katy Clark Ann Clwyd Vernon Coaker Ann Coffey Rosie Cooper Yvette Cooper Jeremy Corbyn Stella Creasy Jon Cruddas John Cryer Alex Cunningham Jim Cunningham Simon Danczuk Mr Alistair Darling Wayne...
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