At Autumn Budget 2024 and Spring Statement 2025, the government committed to bring forward a package of measures in Spring 2025 aimed at simplifying the tax and customs system to help deliver the Plan for Change. Today, the government delivers that commitment with a package of 26 measures.

In addition, the...

At Autumn Budget 2024 and Spring Statement 2025, the government committed to bring forward a package of measures in Spring 2025 aimed at simplifying the tax and customs system to help deliver the Plan for Change. Today, the government delivers that commitment with a package of 26 measures.

In addition, the...

My honourable friend the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury (James Murray) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.

At Autumn Budget 2024 and Spring Statement 2025, the government committed to bring forward a package of measures in Spring 2025 aimed at simplifying the tax and customs system to help deliver...

My honourable friend the Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury (James Murray) has today made the following Written Ministerial Statement.

At Autumn Budget 2024 and Spring Statement 2025, the government committed to bring forward a package of measures in Spring 2025 aimed at simplifying the tax and customs system to help deliver...

In the Autumn 2021 Budget the Government announced that it would reform income tax 'basis periods' so businesses’ profit or loss for a tax year would be the profit or loss arising in the tax year itself, regardless of its accounting date.

In the Autumn 2021 Budget the Government announced that it would reform income tax 'basis periods' so businesses’ profit or loss for a tax year would be the profit or loss arising in the tax year itself, regardless of its accounting date.

Let me begin by expressing my disappointment that there is to be no Public Bill Committee. I have served on every single one in the present Parliament. I do not know what I did wrong in the Whips Office, but I feel that I am missing out on something.

I congratulate...

Let me begin by expressing my disappointment that there is to be no Public Bill Committee. I have served on every single one in the present Parliament. I do not know what I did wrong in the Whips Office, but I feel that I am missing out on something.

I congratulate...

I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.

Finance Bill 2015 takes another step forward in this Government’s long-term economic plan. As my right hon. Friend the Chancellor set out in last Wednesday’s Budget statement, we have grown faster than any other major advanced economy in...

I beg to move, That the Bill be now read a Second time.

Finance Bill 2015 takes another step forward in this Government’s long-term economic plan. As my right hon. Friend the Chancellor set out in last Wednesday’s Budget statement, we have grown faster than any other major advanced economy in...

That will also have the effect of increasing complexity in the taxation system. Whatever happened to the tax simplification project?

That will also have the effect of increasing complexity in the taxation system. Whatever happened to the tax simplification project?

We have established the Office of Tax Simplification and put in place a large number of its recommendations. I could spend some time talking Members through some of them. It is also worth pointing out that just last week the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced plans to take very large...

We have established the Office of Tax Simplification and put in place a large number of its recommendations. I could spend some time talking Members through some of them. It is also worth pointing out that just last week the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced plans to take very large...

My hon. Friend talks about the policies that are being put in place by the Government to help businesses. Does he share my view that the freezing of fuel duty has helped not just businesses but individuals, and can he tell us how much of a saving businesses and individuals...

My hon. Friend talks about the policies that are being put in place by the Government to help businesses. Does he share my view that the freezing of fuel duty has helped not just businesses but individuals, and can he tell us how much of a saving businesses and individuals...

My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Very often, the debate in this House is about the impact on individuals of the freeze on fuel duty, which has considerably reduced how much fuel costs. As a consequence of our measures, £10 is saved per tank full of petrol. He is also

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My hon. Friend is absolutely right. Very often, the debate in this House is about the impact on individuals of the freeze on fuel duty, which has considerably reduced how much fuel costs. As a consequence of our measures, £10 is saved per tank full of petrol. He is also

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I welcome the increase in the bank levy. Does the Minister agree that it is extremely difficult for a bank to avoid the levy, whereas the tax on bonuses, for example, would be very easy to avoid?

I welcome the increase in the bank levy. Does the Minister agree that it is extremely difficult for a bank to avoid the levy, whereas the tax on bonuses, for example, would be very easy to avoid?