Clause 19 - Disclosure of VAT avoidance schemes
Finance Bill
4:30 pm
Mr Michael Jack (Fylde, Conservative)
In formulating the approach that is taken in the clause, and taking into account examples such as the scenario that Economic Secretary just gave, did the Government conduct any exercise to discover why the original VAT law was not better and more tightly drafted, and how the vulnerabilities were let in that the Government are now trying to deal with through the clause?
John Healey rose—