HMRC and Google (Settlement) Debate

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Hywel Williams

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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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I am grateful to my hon. Friend for his question. He is absolutely right that it is the action that we have been taking that has meant that companies are changing their behaviour and that we are getting in revenue.

Hywel Williams Portrait Hywel Williams (Arfon) (PC)
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The deadline for submission of self-assessment tax returns is in six days’ time, on 31 January. What consideration has the Minister given to reaching deals, victorious or otherwise, with any of my self-employed constituents who miss that deadline?

David Gauke Portrait Mr Gauke
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Let me return to this case. There has been a lengthy inquiry by HMRC into the affairs of Google. That inquiry has now come to an end and reached a conclusion. There is nothing to suggest that anything other than the proper enforcement of the law as it stands has led the way to this particular conclusion.

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