UNITE: Government wastes opportunity to get tough on tax avoidance by big business
Government wastes opportunity to get tough on tax avoidance by big business
Reacting to the measures to tackle tax avoidance announced by the today (6 December).
Unite general secretary- elect, Len McCluskey said:
The Coalition Government’s so-called clampdown on tax avoidance is a Christmas gift worth billions to businesses exploiting tax loopholes. The Government just wasted a golden opportunity to show it was on the side of fairness and to make sure big business paid its fair share of tax.
“If the Government got tough on tax avoidance it could have raised up to £25 billion. Instead the Coalition will continue dismantling our public services while their friends in the city – the culprits of the financial crisis – avoid paying their fair share of tax. Until the government closes all the tax loopholes, we are not all in this together.”
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Contact: Ciaran Naidoo 07768 931 315
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