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Control Of Tax Avoidance

EDM number 101 in 2005-06, proposed by Austin Mitchell on 17/05/2005.

That this House urges the Government to clamp down on artificial tax avoidance schemes and end the domicile, residence and offshore tax avoidance loop-holes that enable millionaires and numerous companies trading in the UK to avoid UK taxes; and further urges the Government to introduce the General Anti-Avoidance Principle as a matter of priority so that transactions lacking normal commercial substance and solely entered into for the purpose of tax avoidance are ignored for tax purposes, thereby providing certainty, fairness and clarity, which the UK's taxation system requires to prevent abusive tax avoidance, to protect the interests of ordinary citizens who are committed to making their contribution to society, to avoid an unnecessary burden of tax of individual taxpayers and to ensure that companies pay fair taxes on profits generated in this country.

This motion has been signed by a total of 37 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Austin Mitchell17/05/2005Great GrimsbyLabourProposed
Rudi Vis18/05/2005Finchley & Golders GreenLabourSeconded
Peter Bottomley18/05/2005Worthing WestConservativeSeconded
Kelvin Hopkins18/05/2005Luton NorthLabourSeconded
Lynne Jones18/05/2005Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSeconded
Paul Holmes18/05/2005ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSeconded
Iris Robinson18/05/2005StrangfordDUPSigned
David Taylor19/05/2005North West LeicestershireLabourSigned
Andrew George19/05/2005St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Andrew Dismore19/05/2005HendonLabourSigned
Bob Spink23/05/2005Castle PointConservativeSigned
Ann Cryer23/05/2005KeighleyLabourSigned
Nigel Dodds23/05/2005Belfast NorthDUPSigned
Bill Etherington23/05/2005Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Betty Williams23/05/2005ConwyLabourSigned
Roger Williams24/05/2005Brecon & RadnorshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Hywel Williams24/05/2005CaernarfonPlaid CymruSigned
Clive Efford24/05/2005ElthamLabourSigned
Michael Clapham24/05/2005Barnsley West & PenistoneLabourSigned
Paul Flynn25/05/2005Newport WestLabourSigned
David Drew25/05/2005StroudLabourSigned
Janet Dean25/05/2005BurtonLabourSigned
Martin Caton25/05/2005GowerLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd25/05/2005Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Brian Jenkins25/05/2005TamworthLabourSigned
Bob Russell25/05/2005ColchesterLiberal DemocratSigned
Jon Trickett26/05/2005HemsworthLabourSigned
Harry Cohen26/05/2005Leyton & WansteadLabourSigned
John Leech06/06/2005Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
Angus MacNeil06/06/2005Na h-Eileanan an IarScottish National PartySigned
Albert Owen07/06/2005Ynys MLabourSigned
Alan Simpson09/06/2005Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
John Barrett21/06/2005Edinburgh WestLiberal DemocratSigned
David Crausby29/06/2005Bolton North EastLabourSigned
John McDonnell04/07/2005Hayes & HarlingtonLabourSigned
David Marshall13/07/2005Glasgow EastLabourSigned
Jim Cunningham16/03/2006Coventry SouthLabourSigned

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