I'm posting this as I think it's important to show exactly how and why a candidate has your support, not just what you read in the media.
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Edward Miliband MP, Doncaster North voted in favour of introducing a penalty regime for the general anti-abuse rule and in favour of other measures intended to reduce tax avoidance.
The majority of MPs voted against introducing a penalty regime for the general anti-abuse rule and against other measures intended to reduce tax avoidance.
The motion rejected by the majority of MPs taking part in this vote stated:
That this House
notes with concern that following the revelations of malpractice at HSBC bank, which were first given to the Government in May 2010, just one out of 1,100 people who have avoided or evaded tax have been prosecuted;
calls upon Lord Green and the Prime Minister to make a full statement about Lord Green’s role at HSBC and his appointment as a Minister;
regrets the failure of the Government’s deal on tax disclosure with Switzerland, which has raised less than a third of the amount promised by Ministers;
welcomes the proposals of charities and campaigning organisations for an anti-tax dodging Bill; and
further calls on the Government to clamp down on tax avoidance by introducing a penalty regime for the general anti-abuse rule, which is currently too weak to be effective, closing the Quoted Eurobonds exemption loophole, ensuring that hedge funds trading shares pay the same amount of tax as other investors, introducing deeming criteria to restrict false self-employment in the construction industry, and scrapping the shares for rights scheme, which the Office for Budget Responsibility has warned could cost £1 billion in avoidance.'
What is the 'shares for rights' scheme?..... oh dear....isn't this what happened before the royal mail sell off, they gave posties a few shares for their workers rights and then privatised it ensuring nobody had the right to a full redundancy package or pension?
'Businesses will be allowed to remove "gold-plated employment rights" in exchange for handing out shares to employees which will be exempt from tax, George Osborne has said.'
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/...-rights-scheme
http://www.publicwhip.org.uk/divisio...&house=commons