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Speech in Commons Chamber - Wed 05 Nov 2014
Income Tax

"I entirely agree with my hon. Friend.

My final point is this: the bulk of people who will benefit are in the banks and the rest of the finance industry. This is a very privileged industry, because every other industry in the country has to pay a 20% transaction tax, …..."
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Written Question
Financial Services: Taxation
Monday 7th July 2014

Asked by: Frank Dobson (Labour - Holborn and St Pancras)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what modelling (a) his Department and (b) the Office for Budget Responsibility has made of the financial effect of a tax levied on financial transactions.

Answered by David Gauke

I refer the right hon. Member to the answer given on 11 March 2013, Hansard, column 38W.

Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 01 Jul 2014
Finance Bill

"Will the Minister give way?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 01 Jul 2014
Finance Bill

"Can the Minister identify anything I said that was factually incorrect? [Interruption.]..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 01 Jul 2014
Finance Bill

"Is it not the case that the very well paid people who got the benefit are a collection of tax swindlers swindling the rest of the taxpayers, and should not everybody in the House be attending to changing the law so that such tax swindling cannot happen in the future?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 01 Jul 2014
Finance Bill

"Does the hon. Gentleman, as a Lib Dem, not recall that that date was significant in another way, as it was the day that the leader of the Liberal Democrats signed a pledge to get rid of tuition fees?..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 01 Jul 2014
Finance Bill

"Uncharacteristically, I will come to the aid of the former right hon. Member for Hartlepool, because his sentence went on to say—and it was the same sentence—

“providing they pay their fair share of tax”...."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 01 Jul 2014
Finance Bill

"I strongly support new clause 14. It would appear that the Treasury’s Orwellian motto is “Ignorance is strength”. It is not just that the Treasury will not have this study done, but it has not had it done and does not know the answer. The Government are clearly afraid of …..."
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Speech in Commons Chamber - Tue 01 Jul 2014
Finance Bill

"No, I will not give way—[Interruption.] Well, I have sat here throughout the whole debate and listened to what other people had to say, so I am going to get a little further in.

One thing that is particularly irksome for badly off people in this country …..."
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Written Question
Self-employed
Wednesday 18th June 2014

Asked by: Frank Dobson (Labour - Holborn and St Pancras)

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many income tax payers were registered with HM Revenue and Customs as self employed in (a) 2010-11 and (b) each succeeding year.

Answered by David Gauke

Estimates of the numbers of individuals with self employment sources are published in HMRC's National Statistics table 3.6 which is available at the following internet address:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/earned-income-2010-to-2011

These tables provide information up to 2011-12 and are based on the Survey of Personal Incomes (SPI) for the years concerned. The SPI for 2012-13 will be available later in the year.