Chancellor misses a golden opportunity to raise money by tackling tax avoidance in the Budget

Philip Hammond could have taken decisive action in today’s Budget to increase the amount of government funding available to support increasingly over-stretched public services, but he chose not to, according to the campaigning group Tax Justice UK. 

Tax Justice UK, the country’s leading campaigning organisation dedicated to fighting for a fairer tax system, and 38 Degrees have handed in a petition calling on the Prime Minister and Chancellor to take the action needed to tackle tax avoidance in the wake of the release of the ‘Paradise Papers’. In under two weeks, the petition has attracted more than 208,000 signatures from UK taxpayers angered at the failure of the government to put an end to the abusive behaviour of multinational companies and wealthy individuals whose efforts to avoid tax have a direct impact on public services. 

Tax Justice UK, the country’s leading campaigning organisation dedicated to fighting for a fairer tax system, has launched a petition calling on the Prime Minister to take the action needed to tackle tax avoidance in the wake of the release of the ‘Paradise Papers’. Within just a few hours, the petition has attracted more than 50,000 signatures from UK taxpayers angered at the failure of the government to put an end to the abusive behaviour of multinational companies and wealthy individuals whose efforts to avoid tax have a direct impact on public services. {UPDATE 14/11/2017: NOW at 156,000 signatures and rising!}

Tax Justice UK calls for the Prime Minister to clamp down on tax avoidance in the wake of new leaks
 
Tax Justice UK, the country’s leading campaigning organisation dedicated to fighting for a fairer tax system, has called on the Prime Minister to take the action needed to tackle tax avoidance in the wake of the release of the ‘Paradise Papers’.