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Locums: Tax Avoidance

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Question for Department of Health and Social Care

UIN 168154, tabled on 24 July 2018

Question

Drew Hendry
Scottish National Party
Inverness, Nairn, Badenoch and Strathspey
Commons

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how many locum doctors are subject to the 2019 Loan Charge.

Answer

Stephen Barclay
Conservative
North East Cambridgeshire
Commons

Answered on

5 September 2018

No estimate of the number of locum doctors affected by the 2019 Loan Charge has been made. It is the Department’s expectation however that locum doctors do not enter into tax avoidance arrangements and should comply with this new legislation from its introduction in April 2019.

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