Part of Oral Answers to Questions — Treasury – in the House of Commons at 2:30 pm on 16 November 2010.
Kerry McCarthy
Shadow Minister (Treasury)
2:30,
16 November 2010
I am sure that the Government will be aware of the growing public outrage at the fact that a company such as Vodafone seems to have been able more or less to decide the size of its own tax bill, and, in doing so, is rumoured to have avoided a sum as high as £6 billion. Do the Government agree that we need far more transparency and accountability when it comes to such backroom deals with large companies, or are we now entering a world where only the little people pay their taxes?