HMRC and Google (Settlement) Debate

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Andrew Bridgen

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Speaker’s Statement

HMRC and Google (Settlement)

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Monday 25th January 2016

(8 years, 10 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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David Gauke Portrait Mr Gauke
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The statutory rate for Google is exactly the same as the statutory rate for everybody else.

Andrew Bridgen Portrait Andrew Bridgen (North West Leicestershire) (Con)
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Human nature and ingenuity being what they are, from the moment taxes were invented there has always been a difference between the tax that Governments expect to receive and the tax that is actually paid—that is known as the tax gap. Will the Minister explain to the House in what direction the tax gap has been going since we came to office in 2010?

David Gauke Portrait Mr Gauke
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As a percentage of tax liability, the tax gap has been falling. Corporation tax avoidance, or corporate avoidance, has been falling at an even faster rate.

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