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date	11/05/2022
answering body	Treasury
answering dept id	14
answering dept short name	Treasury
answering dept sort name	Treasury
hansard heading	Small Businesses: Business Rates
house id	1
legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
question text	To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, whether he is taking steps to reduce the burden of business rates on small and medium businesses.
tabling member constituency	Windsor
tabling member printed	Adam Afriyie
uin	686
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/05/2022 answer text With the conclusion of the Business Rates Review at Autumn Budget 2021, the Government has delivered meaningful reform and cuts worth £7 billion to business over the next five years. This includes a multiplier freeze in 2022-23 which will support all ratepayers, large and small, and a new temporary relief for retail, hospitality, and leisure businesses worth almost £1.7 billion in 2022-23. In addition, over a third of properties (700,000) already pay no business rates as a result of 100 per cent relief through Small Business Rates Relief, with an additional 121,000 in the taper. answering member constituency South East Cambridgeshire answering member printed Lucy Frazer question first answered 19/05/2022 15:59:03 answering member 4517 label Biography information for Lucy Frazer
tabling member	1586 label Biography information for Adam Afriyie

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date	11/02/2020
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 to ensure the proportionality of his Department's policy on (a) promoters and enablers of loan charge schemes and (b) people who have been mis-sold a financial arrangement.
tabling member constituency	Midlothian
tabling member printed	Owen Thompson
uin	686
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2020 answer text <p>The Government is determined to continue to tackle promoters of tax avoidance schemes.</p><p> </p><p>The Government announced measures to reduce the scope for promoters to market tax avoidance schemes in its response to the independent Loan Charge Review. Further detail of the measures will be set out at Budget, and new legislation will be scrutinised by Parliament during the passage of the 2020/21 Finance Bill.</p><p> </p><p>In 2019/20 HMRC are doubling their resource involved in tackling promoters and have committed to publish a revised strategy for tackling promoters of tax avoidance schemes by the end of March 2020.</p><p> </p><p>While the Government empathises with anyone who believes they were misled into using a disguised remuneration 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> </p><p>The Government does recognise the importance of taxpayers being able to get reliable tax advice and announced, in response to the Review, a call for evidence on what steps the Government can take to raise standards in the tax advice market to give taxpayers more assurance that the advice they are receiving is reliable.</p> answering member constituency Hereford and South Herefordshire answering member printed Jesse Norman question first answered 19/02/2020 10:01:45 answering member 3991 label Biography information for Jesse Norman
tabling member	4482 label Biography information for Owen Thompson