Legislate to make Tax Avoidance a criminal offence

Rejected 21 signatures

What the petition asks

We ask government to introduce legislation to make it a criminal offence to promote, aid and abet the avoidance of paying tax. We also ask the government, to ensure that there are adequate punishments that include jail time as a minimum sentence for anyone complicit in such practices.

Tax avoidance is costing the country billions of pounds that could be used for public services.
We want parliament to ensure everyone pays their fair share and make tax avoidance a crime. This includes corporations who should pay up to help our country in difficult times.
Many tax avoidance schemes exist which cost our country BILLIONS.
Save our country BILLIONS and make tax avoidance illegal.

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

10 Nov 2017	Petition opened for signatures
16 Nov 2017	Rejected by the Petitions Committee

Key facts

Signatures 21

Status Rejected

Rejected 16 Nov 2017

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