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List of special tax dispensations for MPs

August 2, 2014 by Confirm or Deny

This is simply two lists rather than a proper blog post and it has sat in my ‘drafts’ for a long time. First of special tax dispensations granted to MPs by HMRC followed by a (shorter) list of dispensations refused. All information obtained under FOI in May 2012. The same FOI request was source for the Guardian article: Tax inspectors clash with MPs over expenses.

Dispensations granted:

  • Advertising of meetings/surgeries
  • Business rates
  • Contact cards (business cards for MPs)
  • Contents insurance
  • Computer hire
  • Computer Software
  • Constituency office expenses (rent, electricity, gas, other fuel, water, buildings insurance, phone, internet)
  • Fax machine hire
  • Fax machine purchase
  • Government Procurement Cards (GPC)
  • Installation/maintenance of office equipment
  • Installation of internet access (start up)
  • Landline purchase (start up)
  • Office alterations (start up)
  • Office Costs Expenditure (certain types)
  • Recruitment (start up)
  • Reward and recognition payments to MPs staff
  • Start up expenditure (certain types)
  • Subsistence (temporary workplaces)
  • Surgery premises hire (for the surgeries MPs hold with their constituents)
  • Telephone installation (start up)
  • Training for MPs staff (start up)
  • Travel (temporary workplaces)
  • Website design (start up)

Dispensations refused:

  • Expenses management services
  • Parliamentary accountancy services
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