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Tax Avoidance By UK Companies

EDM number 1455 in 2006-07, proposed by Bob Russell on 14/05/2007.

That this House deplores the involvement of major British companies such as Tesco, HMV, WH Smith, Asda and others in multi-million pound tax-dodging operations by selling goods online to UK customers from overseas locations which are not subject to United Kingdom or European Union Value Added Tax legislation; warns that such operations are detrimental to British jobs and to the British economy with the loss of tax revenue to pay for public services in the UK; further warns that these activities are also environmentally damaging because of the need to transport goods to such overseas locations and then post them to the UK; urges the Government to publicly make known to such famous UK companies that it deplores business practices which are against the UK's national interests and which damage smaller UK retailers; and calls on the Government to take measures to close the tax loophole being exploited by companies whose public image needs to be exposed by such hypocrisy.

This motion has been signed by a total of 36 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Bob Russell14/05/2007ColchesterLiberal DemocratProposed
David Taylor15/05/2007North West LeicestershireLabourSeconded
Lynne Jones15/05/2007Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSeconded
Ann Cryer15/05/2007KeighleyLabourSeconded
Jeremy Corbyn15/05/2007Islington NorthLabourSeconded
Paul Holmes15/05/2007ChesterfieldLiberal DemocratSeconded
Andrew George15/05/2007St IvesLiberal DemocratSigned
Colin Breed16/05/2007South East CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Rudi Vis16/05/2007Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
Mike Hancock16/05/2007Portsmouth SouthLiberal DemocratSigned
David Drew16/05/2007StroudLabourSigned
Andrew Dismore16/05/2007HendonLabourSigned
John Cummings16/05/2007EasingtonLabourSigned
Ronnie Campbell16/05/2007Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Elfyn Llwyd16/05/2007Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
David Lepper16/05/2007Brighton, PavilionLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins16/05/2007Luton NorthLabourSigned
Vincent Cable17/05/2007TwickenhamLiberal DemocratSigned
Jo Swinson17/05/2007East DunbartonshireLiberal DemocratSigned
Phil Willis17/05/2007Harrogate and KnaresboroughLiberal DemocratSigned
Paul Flynn17/05/2007Newport WestLabourSigned
Michael Clapham17/05/2007Barnsley West and PenistoneLabourSigned
Brian Jenkins17/05/2007TamworthLabourSigned
Derek Wyatt18/05/2007Sittingbourne and SheppeyLabourSigned
Rob Marris21/05/2007Wolverhampton South WestLabourSigned
John Hemming21/05/2007Birmingham, YardleyLiberal DemocratSigned
Mark Hunter21/05/2007CheadleLiberal DemocratSigned
Jim Sheridan23/05/2007Paisley and Renfrewshire NorthLabourSigned
Bill Etherington24/05/2007Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
Dan Rogerson24/05/2007North CornwallLiberal DemocratSigned
Jim Devine24/05/2007LivingstonLabourSigned
Ann McKechin04/06/2007Glasgow NorthLabourSigned
David Hamilton04/06/2007MidlothianLabourSigned
John Leech04/06/2007Manchester, WithingtonLiberal DemocratSigned
John Pugh11/06/2007SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Alan Simpson13/06/2007Nottingham SouthLabourSigned

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