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3 Feb 2026Finance (No. 2) Bill (Sixth sitting)

Perhaps both.

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3 Feb 2026Finance (No. 2) Bill (Sixth sitting)

In 1925?

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3 Feb 2026Finance (No. 2) Bill (Sixth sitting)

I welcome the shadow EST’s interest in these matters. The DL Committee debate to which he referred was indeed an interesting one. [Hon. Members: “Hear, hear!”] I am glad that other Members agree. The matters that the hon. Member and I discussed in that debate included the Financial Conduct Authority’s supervisory power

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3 Feb 2026Finance (No. 2) Bill (Sixth sitting)

Clauses 272 and 273 will make changes to ensure that HMRC receives information under the cryptoasset reporting framework from UK cryptoasset businesses about their UK-resident customers. This will streamline reporting for businesses, which will be able to use the same HMRC reporting portal for both their UK and non-UK

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3 Feb 2026Finance (No. 2) Bill (Fifth sitting)

Clauses 156 to 162 introduce a new statutory prohibition on the promotion of tax avoidance arrangements. If you will forgive me, Sir Roger, I will set out a little more background on these clauses than I have on others, which I think is important. HMRC already can and regularly does stop people promoting marketed avoid

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3 Feb 2026Finance (No. 2) Bill (Fifth sitting)

It is good to hear that the shadow Exchequer Secretary will not oppose the clauses. He is right about the policy impetus behind what we are doing. For the first time in the UK, more people vape than smoke. The chief medical officer has been clear that vaping is not risk-free, and those who do not smoke should not vape.

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27 Jan 2026Finance (No. 2) Bill (First sitting)

Clauses 17 and 18 will bring employee car ownership schemes into the benefit-in-kind regime from 2030, with transitional arrangements until 2032. Clause 19 will ensure that the introduction of new emissions standards does not lead to a sharp increase in benefit-in-kind tax for plug-in hybrid electric vehicles. On claus

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27 Jan 2026Finance (No. 2) Bill (First sitting)

On the points made by the shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Wyre Forest, we have listened very carefully indeed to the sector’s concerns and have responded. That is exactly why we are delaying the proposed changes to employee car ownership schemes until 2030. That is the reasoning behind the delay. The Government ar

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27 Jan 2026Finance (No. 2) Bill (First sitting)

The Government delivered the regulatory framework for PISCES in May 2025, and the shadow Minister has, fairly, asked for an update. I am pleased to tell him that the Financial Conduct Authority has since approved, as he may know, two PISCES market operators: JP Jenkins and the London Stock Exchange. We are hopeful that

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27 Jan 2026Finance (No. 2) Bill (First sitting)

The shadow Minister, the hon. Member for Wyre Forest, and my hon. Friend the Member for Burnley referred to vaccinations and asked about the extent to which covid vaccinations might be part of the scheme. We are limiting relief to flu vaccinations because employers have consistently highlighted them as a common relief

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27 Jan 2026Finance (No. 2) Bill (First sitting)

Clauses 20 to 23 relate to other employment income. Clause 20 will simplify the rules on common workplace health and equipment costs, reducing administrative burdens for employers and giving greater clarity to the tax treatment of these costs. It will exempt reimbursements for accommodations, supplies or services used

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27 Jan 2026Finance (No. 2) Bill (First sitting)

Clause 16 will enable the existing enterprise management incentives scheme and company share option plan contracts agreed before 6 April 2028 to be amended to include a sale on the private intermittent securities and capital exchange system—known by its much more catchy acronym of PISCES—as an exercisable event, withou

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27 Jan 2026Finance (No. 2) Bill (First sitting)

Clause 24 will make changes to ensure that recruitment agencies are responsible for accounting for pay-as-you-earn on payments made to workers that are supplied via umbrella companies. Many umbrella companies operate diligently and support their employees, but a significant number are used to facilitate non-compliance,

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27 Jan 2026Finance (No. 2) Bill (First sitting)

I beg to move amendment 5, in clause 24, page 28, line 25, at end insert— “61Z2 Disclosures to liable persons (1) Subsection (2) applies where an officer of Revenue and Customs considers that a person is, or may be, jointly and severally liable to pay an amount as a result of this Chapter. (2) The officer may at any ti

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27 Jan 2026Finance (No. 2) Bill (First sitting)

I beg to move amendment 9, in clause 25, page 30, line 21, at end insert “, or (ii) a director or shadow director of such a person.” This amendment expands the persons to whom the Commissioners are not required to make a loan charge settlement offer so as to include directors and shadow directors of a promoter or intro

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27 Jan 2026Finance (No. 2) Bill (First sitting)

On the shadow Minister’s final question, I am afraid that I do not know what discussions have taken place with the organisation he referred to, but I can write to him and let him know. Ultimately, whether to use an umbrella company when supplying a worker to a client is a commercial decision for agencies. That commerci

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27 Jan 2026Finance (No. 2) Bill (Second sitting)

I can confirm that guidance will be forthcoming, and I am absolutely sure that it will be clear. I am also pleased to confirm that there will be no additional administrative burden on employers, because employers already have to enter a percentage figure on the PAYE notification form; as I say, this change will just re

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27 Jan 2026Finance (No. 2) Bill (First sitting)

I welcome the shadow Minister’s welcoming of the majority of the changes that we are making. To address his criticism of what we are doing in relation to the venture capital trust income tax relief, I come back to the impetus behind this package of reforms as a whole on EMI, EIS and VCT, which is to make sure that the

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27 Jan 2026Finance (No. 2) Bill (First sitting)

Clause 28 will reduce the main rate writing-down allowance for corporation tax and income tax, and clause 29 introduces a new first-year allowance available for expenditure on plant and machinery. As I am sure all hon. Members are aware, capital allowances allow businesses to write off the costs of capital assets, such

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27 Jan 2026Finance (No. 2) Bill (First sitting)

I managed to give way just before the end of my speech. The shadow Minister raises a good question and a fair point. Through the new measures and existing rules, HMRC will have powers that can result in criminal prosecution of promoters of tax avoidance, including the new universal stop regulation proposal, which will

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