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Capital Gains Tax

Delegated Legislation – in the House of Commons at 8:34 pm on 20 January 2009.

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That the draft Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Taxes on Income and Capital) (Isle of Man) Order 2008, which was laid before this House on 13 November, in the previous Session of Parliament, be approved.

That the draft Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Taxes on Income and Capital) (Netherlands) Order 2008, which was laid before this House on 13 November, in the previous Session of Parliament, be approved.

That the draft Double Taxation Relief and International Tax Enforcement (Taxes on Income and Capital) (France) Order 2008, which was laid before this House on 13 November, in the previous Session of Parliament, be approved. —(Mr. Frank Roy.)

Question agreed to.

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