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Accountancy Firms And Tax

EDM number 1652 in 2006-07, proposed by Austin Mitchell on 07/06/2007.

That this House urges the Government to investigate the role of KPMG, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Deloitte, Ernst and Young, Grant Thornton and other accountancy firms in tax avoidance and evasion, and in devising, marketing, promoting and implementing aggresive tax avoidance schemes which have no commercial substance and whose sole purpose is to avoid UK taxes on income and profits, thus enabling their wealthy and corporate clients to avoid taxes and national insurance contributions by transfer pricing, artificial loans, inflated management charges, special purpose vehicles, joint ventures, fictitious assets, offshore schemes and secretive trusts, all designed to deprive the Treasury of billions of pounds of tax revenues which in turn forces the Government to curtail social investment and shift the tax burden onto ordinary individuals, resulting in regressive tax burdens and distribution of wealth and tax burdens.

This motion has been signed by a total of 22 MPs.

MPDateConstituencyPartyType
Austin Mitchell07/06/2007Great GrimsbyLabourProposed
David Taylor11/06/2007North West LeicestershireLabourSeconded
Ann Cryer11/06/2007KeighleyLabourSeconded
Lynne Jones11/06/2007Birmingham, Selly OakLabourSeconded
David Drew12/06/2007StroudLabourSeconded
Jeremy Corbyn12/06/2007Islington NorthLabourSeconded
Elfyn Llwyd12/06/2007Meirionnydd Nant ConwyPlaid CymruSigned
Andrew Dismore12/06/2007HendonLabourSigned
Harry Cohen13/06/2007Leyton and WansteadLabourSigned
Dai Davies13/06/2007Blaenau GwentIndependentSigned
Jim Devine13/06/2007LivingstonLabourSigned
Rudi Vis13/06/2007Finchley and Golders GreenLabourSigned
John McDonnell13/06/2007Hayes and HarlingtonLabourSigned
Kelvin Hopkins13/06/2007Luton NorthLabourSigned
Alan Simpson13/06/2007Nottingham SouthLabourSigned
John Pugh14/06/2007SouthportLiberal DemocratSigned
Ronnie Campbell14/06/2007Blyth ValleyLabourSigned
Phil Willis18/06/2007Harrogate and KnaresboroughLiberal DemocratSigned
David Hamilton19/06/2007MidlothianLabourSigned
Neil Gerrard26/06/2007WalthamstowLabourSigned
Bill Etherington28/06/2007Sunderland NorthLabourSigned
David Marshall02/07/2007Glasgow EastLabourSigned

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