Thread by @CommonsTreasury

⏳One hour to go until our evidence session on #TaxAfterCoronavirus, with a focus on employment taxes.

We'll hear from:

✅@JudithFreedman
✅@BillDodwellTax
✅@dcribb
✅Andrew Titchener
@CBItweets

📺Watch it live from 9.30am here👇

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We're underway with our evidence session on #TaxAfterCoronavirus.

📺Watch it live here👇

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Andrew Titchener from @CBItweets tells us that the headline rate of corporation tax is not as important to businesses as reliefs and incentives.

.@JudithFreedman tells us that there is no good rationale between taxing employed and self-employed people differently.

She added that resources that are spent on encouraging entrepreneurship should be better targeted and that tax is a crude way to incentivise risk-taking.

.@BillDodwellTax tells us that Parliament should decide who it wants to be employed and self-employed and that there should be a statutory test.

.@dcribb tells us that it's perverse to have the IR35 legislation coming in next year when the Government should be incentivising flexible working.

That's all for today - many thanks to all of our witnesses for taking part.

Tune in tomorrow at 2.30pm to watch our evidence session on the economics of lockdown and the regional economic impacts of #coronavirus.

📺You can watch it live here👇

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