Legislate to make Tax Avoidance illegal.

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

The words 'avoidance' and 'evasion' have different meanings but when applied to the failure to pay taxes they amount to the same thing: shortchanging of the public purse. Our public services are losing billions of pounds per year as a result of tax avoidance. The Government needs to legislate now!

There have been petitions about this issue before but none have resulted in sufficient public support to make an impact. Successive Governments, across the Political spectrum, have failed to deal with this issue. At the time of writing, with our public services creaking at the seams for want of adequate funding, yet another major tax dodging scandal is unfolding. A practice this immoral should not be allowed to remain legal.
It is time for the public to be counted and for Government to act.

Why it was rejected

It was not clear what the petition asked the UK Government or Parliament to do.

Petitions need to call on the Government or Parliament to take a specific action.

We understand that you're concerned about tax avoidance, but we're not sure exactly what change you'd like to see.

There is already something called the General Anti-Abuse Rule (GAAR). you can find out more about this here:

http://researchbriefings.files.parliament.uk/documents/SN06265/SN06265.pdf

You could start a new petition asking clearly for a specific change to the law on tax.

Timeline

6 Nov 2017	Petition opened for signatures
9 Nov 2017	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 9 Nov 2017

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