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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

830000

	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	Export Control Act 2002: Arrests
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many arrests have been made under the provisions of the Export Control Act 2002 in each year since that Act came into effect; how many charging decisions have been received on such breaches from the CPS; on what dates such decisions were received; and how many criminal convictions have resulted from each such charging decision.
	tabling member constituency	Brighton, Kemptown
	tabling member printed	Lloyd Russell-Moyle
	uin	124723
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 29/01/2018 answer text Information on HMRC enforcement outcomes is published in the Strategic Export Controls Annual Reports which are available on the gov.uk. Website. The specific information requested is not readily available. HMRC takes breaches of strategic export controls very seriously but does not view a criminal prosecution as the only successful law enforcement outcome in all cases. There are several other options they can and regularly do exercise; these include building awareness, sending warning letters, issuing compound penalties and seizure or disruption actions. answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 29/01/2018 14:54:10 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	4615 label Biography information for Lloyd Russell-Moyle

830219

	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	Taxation: Lesotho
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the Government's new tax treaty with Lesotho is the first UK tax treaty with (a) any country or (b) a low or middle-income country to include a mandatory binding arbitration clause.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	124880
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>This is not the case. In addition to Lesotho, the UK has mandatory binding arbitration provisions in tax treaties signed with: Albania, Algeria, Armenia, Bahrain, Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, Iceland, Japan, Kosovo, Liechtenstein, Netherlands, Norway, Qatar, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Tajikistan, Ukraine and Uruguay.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 01/02/2018 14:34:50 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

830170

	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	Customs
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what plans his Department has to increase the efficiency of customs clearance processes.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	124836
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>The new CDS (Customs Declaration Service) will replace the current customs declaration computer system (CHIEF) in January 2019. CDS will provide businesses engaged in international trade with a robust, modern and flexible customs declaration service.</p><p> </p><p>‘The Customs Future Partnership Paper’ published on 15 August 2017 sets out the Government’s aspirations for future customs arrangements with the EU. The two new models proposed are:</p><p>- A highly streamlined customs arrangement</p><p>- A new customs partnership with the EU</p><p> </p><p>The precise nature of any new customs arrangement will be determined in negotiations with the EU.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 01/02/2018 14:47:26 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

830145

	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	Taxation
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent steps he has taken to promote tax simplification.
	tabling member constituency	Windsor
	tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
	uin	124820
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>The government is committed to having a tax system that is simple to understand and easy to comply with. At Budget the government took a number of practical steps to simplify the tax rules for businesses and charities which included:</p><ul><li>Extending the option of using mileage rates to property businesses,</li><li>Ending receipt checking on subsistence costs and</li><li>Simplifying the Gift Aid donor benefits rules for charities.</li></ul><p> </p><p>These measures build on the action taken by the government since 2010 to simplify the tax system including:</p><ul><li>Establishing the Office of Tax Simplification and then putting it on a permanent, statutory basis</li><li>Implementing around half of the OTS’s recommendations since 2010.</li></ul> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 01/02/2018 14:49:15 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

830052

	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	Stamp Duty Land Tax
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what estimate his Department has made of the total sum of revenue that it has generated from increases in stamp duty since 2010.
	tabling member constituency	Hitchin and Harpenden
	tabling member printed	Bim Afolami
	uin	124759
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>The government has introduced a number of reforms to Stamp Duty Land Tax since 2010, including major reforms to the rates and overall structure of the tax, and the introduction and withdrawal of reliefs. Along with such reforms, a wide range of factors affect revenues from SDLT, including wider economic factors which impact the residential and commercial property markets.</p><p> </p><p>Where changes have been introduced, the estimates of the direct exchequer costs of these measures are available in the OBR’s policy measures database and the HM Treasury Red Book.</p><p> </p><p><a href="http://budgetresponsibility.org.uk/download/policy-measures-database/" target="_blank">http://budgetresponsibility.org.uk/download/policy-measures-database/</a></p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 01/02/2018 14:53:14 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	4639 label Biography information for Bim Afolami

830200

	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	Taxation: Lesotho
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether the mandatory binding arbitration clause in the UK’s new tax treaty with Lesotho will help the Lesotho Government to combat tax avoidance and evasion.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	124861
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>The UK’s new tax treaty with Lesotho, in common with all modern tax treaties, includes a “Mutual Agreement Procedure” provision allowing disagreements about the way the treaty should be applied to be resolved by agreement between the authorities in the two countries. The purpose of the mandatory binding arbitration provision is to provide a remedy in the exceptional circumstance that those authorities are unable to reach agreement after discussing the matter for two years. It works by referring the matter to an independent arbitration panel. Each country selects a panel member and those members then select a third member. The decision of the panel is then binding on the two countries. This ensures that disputes do not continue unresolved. Unresolved disputes about the operation of the tax treaty could otherwise result in double taxation; and the fundamental object of a tax treaty is to ensure that such double taxation is eliminated.</p><p> </p><p>The new treaty does contain a number of provisions to combat tax avoidance and evasion. These include the latest OECD standards on the exchange of tax information and mutual assistance in the recovery of tax debts. There are also specific anti-abuse rules in the articles governing the relief from taxation on dividends, interest, royalties and other income. These were included at the UK’s request and protect both countries against improper use of the treaty to avoid domestic tax liabilities.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 01/02/2018 14:31:26 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe

830053

	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	Taxation: Disclosure of Information
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what recent steps his Department has taken to work with other countries and multilateral institutions on ensuring global tax transparency.
	tabling member constituency	Hitchin and Harpenden
	tabling member printed	Bim Afolami
	uin	124760
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>The UK has taken unprecedented action on tax transparency. Thanks to UK leadership, over 100 jurisdictions have now committed to automatically exchange tax information through the Common Reporting Standard. To encourage jurisdictions to commit to tax transparency standards, the UK has supported lists of non-co-operative jurisdictions at both the G20 and EU. The UK supports work in the Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes and World Bank to help implement these standards, as well as directly supporting pilot projects to implement the common reporting standard in Ghana, Pakistan, and Nigeria.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 01/02/2018 14:52:08 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	4639 label Biography information for Bim Afolami

830218

	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	Taxation: Treaties
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, if his Department will publish the objectives that it is seeking to achieve before any future negotiations on bilateral tax treaties.
	tabling member constituency	Birmingham, Selly Oak
	tabling member printed	Steve McCabe
	uin	124879
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>The Government’s objective in negotiating tax treaties is to reach an agreement that allocates taxing rights on a basis that is acceptable to both countries. This is a matter for bilateral negotiation, which may take a number of years. All tax treaties are published once signed and are subject to parliamentary scrutiny before they can take effect.</p> answering member constituency Central Devon answering member printed Mel Stride question first answered 01/02/2018 14:27:05 answering member 3935 label Biography information for Mel Stride
	tabling member	298 label Biography information for Steve McCabe