Michael Connarty
Labour Member of UK Parliament - Linlithgow and East Falkirk Constituency
The measures will help to ensure that every child gets the best start in life; give families more choice about how to balance their work and caring responsibilities; help support employers in recruiting and retaining the best people; and promote social justice and fairness by:
The Bill takes forward the Paymaster General's announcement of 2 December 2004 that the Government would not tolerate the continuing use of schemes to avoid the payment of income tax and National Insurance Contributions (NICs).
The Bill is intended to deter those who have been engaged in tax and NICs avoidance and prevent them from benefiting from lower employment costs than those who do not engage in avoidance. It will have no effect on employers and employees who organise their affairs in a straightforward and ordinary way - the vast majority. In particular, genuine employee share schemes and share option plans will not be affected.
Once enacted, the Bill will give the Treasury the power to make anti-avoidance NICs regulations effective from the same date as the anti-avoidance tax measures to ensure that employers and employees using contrived schemes cannot avoid paying their correct NICs liability.
The Bill also allows regulations to be made which extend the tax avoidance disclosure rules to NICs avoidance arrangements, and ensures employers cannot pass on their NICs liability on past payments of share based earnings to their employees which are caught by the NICs regulations made under the Bill.
The Bill will safeguard £95 million in NICs in 2004-05 and a further £240 million per annum thereafter.
Protects vulnerable consumers and serves to create a fairer and more competitive credit market by:
Improves the registration process for voters, in particular by enabling people to register to vote after an election has been called and providing a new duty for registration officers to ensure comprehensive registers.
Establishes two new electoral offences (including an offence for fraudulent application for a postal vote)and extends the offence of undue influence to help protect against electoral fraud.
Introduces a framework for the Co-ordinated On-line Record of Electors (CORE) supporting national access and improving the security and integrity of electoral registers.
Enables Returning Officers to provide guidance to voters in a variety of languages and formats and provides a new power for Returning Officers to promote participation at elections.
Introduces clearer rules for candidates and political parties and sets a regulatory time period for measuring and controlling candidates' expenses.
Sets out the legal framework to enable identity cards to be introduced throughout the United Kingdom and to create a National Identity Register.
Identity Cards will help:
Labour Member of UK Parliament - Linlithgow and East Falkirk Constituency
August 30, 2010
Labour leadership Candidates Ed Miliband and Ed Balls campaign in neighbouring constituences....
August 11, 2010
Honorary Free Collier Michael Connarty MP had the priviledge of addressing the assembled Free Colliers as their march co...
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