Tax Avoidance and Evasion Debate

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Department: HM Treasury

Tax Avoidance and Evasion

Andrew Gwynne Excerpts
Wednesday 13th April 2016

(8 years, 6 months ago)

Commons Chamber
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John McDonnell Portrait John McDonnell
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The issue of a public register is critical to any measures that are taken in the future, because such a register will enable these kleptocrats to be held to account—particularly in the developing world, where they have denied development resources to the economies of their countries.

Andrew Gwynne Portrait Andrew Gwynne (Denton and Reddish) (Lab)
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Transparency throughout the Crown dependencies and the overseas territories is, of course, crucial. Does not the lack of such transparency further reinforce the message to our constituents that there is one tax rule for the rich and powerful, and another for everyone else?

John McDonnell Portrait John McDonnell
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One of the key things that I think the whole House must do in the coming period is re-establish the credibility and fairness of our taxation system, which has been so badly damaged.