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1275125

registered interest
date	11/01/2021
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, what steps HMRC is taking against umbrella companies who advised their clients to use disguised remuneration schemes.
tabling member constituency	Buckingham
tabling member printed	Greg Smith
uin	136071
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/01/2021 answer text <p>The Government and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) are determined to continue to tackle promoters and operators of tax avoidance schemes. This includes challenging the entities, including umbrella companies, and individuals who promote disguised remuneration schemes.</p><p> </p><p>Umbrella companies advising individuals to use disguised remuneration tax avoidance schemes are treated as promoters or enablers by HMRC. Where appropriate, they are subject to the range of measures laid out in HMRC’s strategy for tackling promoters of tax avoidance schemes, published on 19 March 2020. The strategy sets out HMRC’s work to date and outlines how HMRC will continue to take robust actions against promoters of tax avoidance. The Promoter Strategy is available on GOV.UK.</p><p> </p><p>The Government announced new measures at Budget 2020, which will strengthen the existing regimes and which will help HMRC act more swiftly against promoters and enablers. The Government has also announced that it will consult in the spring on further measures to tackle promoters.</p><p> </p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 19/01/2021 12:09:30 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4778 label Biography information for Greg Smith

1256621

registered interest
date	30/11/2020
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, what steps he is taking on the mis-selling of schemes now subject to the Loan Charge.
tabling member constituency	Chipping Barnet
tabling member printed	Theresa Villiers
uin	122616
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 08/12/2020 answer text <p>While the Government sympathises with anyone who believes they were misled into using a disguised remuneration (DR) scheme, it is an individual’s responsibility to ensure the accuracy of their tax return and to understand the consequences of their decisions.</p><p> </p><p>The Government and HMRC are determined to continue to tackle promoters of tax avoidance schemes. This includes challenging those who promote disguised remuneration loan schemes.</p><p> </p><p>In March 2020, HMRC published their strategy for tackling promoters of tax avoidance schemes. The strategy sets out HMRC’s work to date and outlines how HMRC will continue to take robust actions against promoters of tax avoidance.</p><p> </p><p>Last month HMRC launched the ‘Tax avoidance: don’t get caught out’ communications campaign. The campaign is targeted at contractors and encourages them to stop and take time to check what they are signing up for, challenge what they have been told by those selling the scheme, and protect themselves and public services by reporting schemes to HMRC.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 08/12/2020 12:10:49 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1500 label Biography information for Theresa Villiers

1255372

registered interest
date	25/11/2020
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, how many people who have been in settlement discussions with HMRC on the Loan Charge have settled their case.
tabling member constituency	Orkney and Shetland
tabling member printed	Mr Alistair Carmichael
uin	120815
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2020 answer text <p>About 5,600 employers and individuals settled their use of disguised remuneration tax avoidance schemes in the period to 30 September 2020, in addition to the about 11,000 employers and individuals who settled their use of disguised remuneration schemes between Budget 2016 and 31 March 2020.</p><p>Further information on settlements is available in HMRC’s report to Parliament on the implementation of the recommendations of the independent Loan Charge Review, which was published on 3 December: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-loan-charge-review-hmrc-report-on-implementation" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/independent-loan-charge-review-hmrc-report-on-implementation</a>.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 04/12/2020 14:23:06 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1442 label Biography information for Mr Alistair Carmichael

1255449

registered interest
date	25/11/2020
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, how many penalties have been issued under the legislative powers to tackle Promoters of Tax Avoidance Schemes; and what steps he is taking to investigate and prosecute promoters of such schemes.
tabling member constituency	Romford
tabling member printed	Andrew Rosindell
uin	120817
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2020 answer text <p>HM Revenue and Customs’ (HMRC) top priority in dealing with the promoters of tax avoidance schemes is to change their behaviour so that they stop this activity altogether. HMRC uses a range of powers to achieve this, including the Promoters of Tax Avoidance Schemes (POTAS) legislation. POTAS is designed to encourage promoters to change behaviour voluntarily or to face an escalating series of sanctions.</p><p> </p><p>Following challenge many promoters have chosen to stop and others have done so as a consequence of being issued with a Conduct Notice. Penalties would only then be in point if the Courts found that the Conduct Notice had been breached or information had not been provided when the promoter is formally required to do so. None has yet reached the stage of incurring liability to a penalty.</p><p> </p><p>The Government and HMRC are determined to continue to tackle promoters of tax avoidance schemes. This includes challenging the entities and individuals who promote disguised remuneration loan schemes. On 19 March 2020, HMRC published their strategy for tackling promoters of tax avoidance schemes. The strategy sets out HMRC’s work to date and outlines how HMRC will continue to take robust actions against promoters of tax avoidance. The Promoter Strategy is available on GOV.UK.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 04/12/2020 14:20:11 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	1447 label Biography information for Andrew Rosindell

1255553

registered interest
date	25/11/2020
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, how many people have been affected by mis-selling schemes which are now subject to the Loan Charge in (a) Oxford West and Abingdon constituency and (b) the UK.
tabling member constituency	Oxford West and Abingdon
tabling member printed	Layla Moran
uin	120993
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 04/12/2020 answer text <p>While the Government empathises with anyone who believes they were misled into using a disguised remuneration (DR) scheme, it is an individual’s responsibility to ensure the accuracy of their tax return and to understand the consequences of their decisions. It remains right that the Government takes action to tackle tax avoidance which is unfair to the vast majority of taxpayers who pay the correct tax.</p><p>The Government estimates that about 50,000 individuals are affected by the Loan Charge. The number who may feel they have been affected by mis-selling is not available.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 04/12/2020 14:19:13 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4656 label Biography information for Layla Moran