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Lewes District Council Full Council
Wednesday, 3rd December, 2014 2.30 pm
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Agenda
A list of the Chair of the Council's engagements since the Meeting of the Council on 15 October 2014 is enclosed (page 5).
To deal with questions (if any) which councillors may wish to put to the Leader of the Council. It will be at the Leader’s discretion to re-direct questions to relevant Members of the Cabinet.
A councillor wishing to raise a question must notify the Chair of the Council of the text of the question prior to the commencement of the meeting.
"Background
While many ordinary people face falling household income and rising costs of living, some multinational companies are avoiding billions of pounds of tax from a tax system that fails to make them pay their fair share. Local governments in developing countries and the UK alike would benefit from a fairer tax system where multinational companies pay their fair share, enabling authorities around the world to provide quality public services. The UK government must listen to the strength of public feeling and act to end the injustice of tax dodging by large multinational companies, in developing countries and the UK.
Motion
This council resolves to write to the UK government:
welcoming its crack-down on UK tax avoidance, which includes measures such as a general anti-avoidance rule, capping income tax reliefs, and reducing annual tax free pension contributions from £250,000 to £40,000.
further welcoming the UK government’s role in the OECD drive to introduce country by country reporting, and transfer pricing documentation, and exchange of information on taxation.
and urging the government to do all that it can to accelerate international co-operation on multinational corporate tax avoidance through the European Union, the OECD and other international bodies.
and further, to write to the President of the European Commission, and the chair of the European Union’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs urging them to treat the prevention of corporate tax avoidance as a priority during the current session."