By-election candidate supports tax avoidance for the rich – but hammered the vulnerable with the bedroom tax
Chris Davies: He supports tax avoidance and evasion, according to his voting record.
If you were reading This Site yesterday (July 30), you’ll be aware that a friend on Facebook has been looking at the Parliamentary voting record of Chris Davies, the former MP and current Conservative candidate in the Brecon and Radnorshire by-election – and it makes grim reading.
The same friend has now finished researching Mr Davies’s record on taxation and the results speak for themselves. Amongst other decisions…
• Davies voted against a series of proposals intended to reduce tax avoidance and evasion.
• Davies voted against an investigation into the banking industry’s failure to prevent tax evasion.
• Davies voted against requiring multinational enterprises to publish a country by country tax strategy including information on their attitude to tax planning (this could have established evidence to show how companies avoid paying tax).
• Davies voted against giving the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority duties to combat abusive tax avoidance arrangements.
• Davies voted not to support the publishing full details of the Government’s tax settlement with Google and for an international agreement to implement country-by-country reporting of company accounts.
So you can see that Mr Davies is a big fan of tax avoidance and evasion by corporations and the very rich. Conversely:
• Davies voted to ensure that victims of domestic abuse would have to pay extra charges – the bedroom tax – if they were provided with a secure tenancy that incorporates a spare room.
So he’s against tax fairness; he would let corporations and the rich get away without paying a huge amount of tax that would hugely contribute to public services, but he’s happy to hammer the vulnerable with an unfair and random tax that affects people according to the accommodation that is allocated to them (which in turn is based on what is available).
I hope the people of Brecon and Radnorshire pay attention to this abysmal record – while also remembering that Mr Davies is himself a convict, having been found guilty of faking expenses claims earlier this year.
Mr Davies should never have been voted into Westminster. It is time to kick him back into the political wilderness.
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He also supports criminal fraud, theft and false accounting – so much so that he practiced the crimes himself.
An interview with Tom Davies
https://labourlist.org/2019/07/by-election-candidate-tom-davies-on-brexit-rural-policy-and-lib-dem-tactics/
Excellent research work by yourself Mike, and your friend. Shouldn’t the local Labour Party be doing this work and publicising it far and wide as part of their election campaign?
Perhaps they are.
But I follow your blog religiously and you regularly report the deluge of deceit that comes through your door from the Lib Dems.
Doesn’t the local Labour Party (the biggest Party in Western Europe, over half-a-million members) also deluge residents with more accurate appeals?
I sometimes worry that the Tories continue to get away with it because they have the control of the Press and the opposition just don’t have the resources to put the alternative case.
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