Clause 71 - Review of DST

Part of Finance Bill – in the House of Commons at 4:15 pm on 1 July 2020.

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Photo of Jesse Norman Jesse Norman The Financial Secretary to the Treasury 4:15, 1 July 2020

My right hon. Friend is absolutely right. My point was a slightly different one. I have not yet come to the thrust of what he is suggesting about mandation, but in the first instance Government should be seeking to support, promote, energise and activate more voluntary compliance, precisely in order to increase a public norm of voluntary reporting, which then does a lot of the job and perhaps isolates the groups that decide not to do it. There are plenty of other contexts in which that approach of voluntary, then moving to mandatory, has been quite successful, including in tax.