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830045

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2018
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Treasury: Credit Unions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will offer payroll deduction services for credit union membership to all employees of (a) HMRC and (b) hs Department; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	124754
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text There are no current plans to introduce credit unions in either HMRC or HM Treasury. Both departments are currently reviewing their Wellbeing and Financial strategies, which will include exploring the feasibility and appropriateness of offering credit unions to their staff. answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 29/01/2018 14:56:19 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

830035

	registered interest
	date	24/01/2018
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Employee Ownership
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what further incentives he will offer to encourage employee ownership of companies; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	124748
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text The government offers four tax advantaged employee share schemes: Enterprise Management Incentives, Company Share Option Plan, Save As You Earn and Share Incentive Plan. These enable employers and their employees to mutually benefit from generous Income Tax, National Insurance, and Capital Gains Tax reliefs when they participate. The government announced at Budget 2017 that employees on the Save As You Earn scheme who take maternity or parental leave will be able to pause their contributions for up to 12 months, from 6 months previously. There are no other changes currently planned, but the government keeps all areas of the tax system under review. answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 29/01/2018 14:58:12 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1050282

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Corporation Tax
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans he has to require the Financial Reporting Council to develop accounting standards requiring UK companies to disclose how much corporation tax or its equivalent they pay in each country of their operation; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	213170
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>There are currently no plans to require UK accounting standards to be developed for this purpose.</p><p> </p><p>However, the government continues to support the development of a public Country-by-Country Reporting model that works on a multilateral basis.</p><p> </p><p>This would require large multinational companies to publish a country-by-country breakdown of their profits, tax and assets.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 31/01/2019 15:21:07 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

804405

	registered interest
	date	11/12/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Community Development Finance Institutions
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what steps he is taking to encourage the growth of community development finance initiatives; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	118515
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2017 answer text <p>The government provides support for Community Development Finance Institutions (CDFIs) through Community Investment Tax Relief (CITR). CITR encourages investment in disadvantaged communities by giving tax relief to investors who back businesses and other enterprises in less advantaged areas by investing in accredited CDFIs. The tax relief is available to individuals and companies and is worth up to 25% of the value of the investment in the CDFI.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 14/12/2017 14:53:02 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

756727

	registered interest
	date	04/09/2017
	answering body	HM Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	CaTreasury
	hansard heading	Revenue and Customs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if he will publish a position paper on the future of HM Revenue and Customs after the UK leaves the EU and its role in investigating tax avoidance by multinational corporations; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	7874
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/09/2017 answer text <p>The UK has been at the forefront of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) Project.</p><p> </p><p>The Government has taken the lead in implementing the project’s recommendations in domestic legislation including a restriction on tax relief for corporate interest expense and rules to prevent multinationals exploiting mismatches between countries’ tax regimes.</p><p> </p><p>Leaving the EU will not impact the Government’s commitment to ensure that the UK has a fair and competitive tax system, where taxes are paid. As the UK’s tax authority, HMRC will continue to engage on these issues after the UK leaves the EU.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 07/09/2017 14:15:37 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1050281

	registered interest
	date	28/01/2019
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Tax Avoidance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he will bring forward legislative proposals to make it an offence for an organisation offering audit services to sell tax avoidance schemes; and if he will make a statement.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	213169
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 31/01/2019 answer text <p>The Government is committed to tackling tax avoidance and ensuring that companies and individuals pay their fair share of tax.</p><p> </p><p>HMRC has a suite of powers to tackle and challenge those who promote or otherwise enable tax avoidance. Those who design, sell, manage or otherwise promote tax avoidance schemes face a range of sanctions including penalties if they fail to disclose their schemes to HMRC where required to do so under the Disclosure of Tax Avoidance Schemes (DOTAS) regime. They can also face action under the Promoters of Tax Avoidance Schemes (POTAS) regime which includes imposing conditions on them to ensure they change their behaviour. And, if any person (not just a scheme promoter) enables another person to use abusive tax arrangements which HMRC later defeats, they could be subject to the an ‘Enabler’s’ penalty.</p><p>Under the ‘Enablers’ penalty, introduced in Finance (No. 2) Act 2017, anyone who knowingly enables another person to use an abusive tax arrangement that is later defeated by HMRC will face a penalty of 100% of the fees they have earned from that activity. This new legislation is at the forefront of HMRC work to disrupt the avoidance market, identifying both the schemes and the individuals behind them and acting quickly to challenge them. It strengthens HMRC’s tools for tackling both promoters and others who profit from enabling others to try to avoid tax.</p><p>The effectiveness of HMRC’s powers is kept under review.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 31/01/2019 15:25:10 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas

1000233

	registered interest
	date	02/11/2018
	answering body	Treasury
	answering dept id	14
	answering dept short name	Treasury
	answering dept sort name	Treasury
	hansard heading	Locums: Tax Avoidance
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the effect on locum doctors and nurses of the 2019 loan charge for disguised remuneration schemes.
	tabling member constituency	Harrow West
	tabling member printed	Gareth Thomas
	uin	187296
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 12/11/2018 answer text <p>I refer the Honourable member to my statement made on 5<sup>th</sup> November 2018, to Parliamentary Question 186276:</p><p><a href="https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-10-31/186276/" target="_blank">https://www.parliament.uk/business/publications/written-questions-answers-statements/written-question/Commons/2018-10-31/186276/</a></p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 12/11/2018 10:27:47 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	177 label Biography information for Gareth Thomas