Clause 19
Finance Bill
12:30 pm
Angela Eagle (Parliamentary Secretary, HM Treasury; Wallasey, Labour)
We could have long and interesting discussions about the effect of the world wide web and offshoring on all sorts of tax regimes. It is something that all tax jurisdictions have to think about and develop policy approaches to in the future as the capacity for giving those services offshore, in areas that are not in the current definitions of tax areas, expands and the potential for doing that in many other areas increases. Gaming is one such area.
The hon. Member for Hammersmith and Fulham asked about taxpayer confidentiality in remote gaming duty. The fact is that one large taxpayer accounts for a huge share of total remote gaming duty revenues, and to provide those figures would effectively expose to public view the tax liability of an easily identifiable taxpayer, which is why I could not answer the question.