Was it the excellent questioning from MPs across the house pointing out that the #LoanCharge is retrospective and that the #LoanChargeReview should've been from a Tax Judge not from their man on the inside...
Maybe it was the #LoanChargeSuicides - the promoters, that name that still keeps giving. Very hard to take a position against an old friend.
Maybe it was the unprecedented actions #HMRC are taking against taxpayers?
Maybe he didn't want to let "the cat out of the bag" on what the review might conclude, just yet. At this point, the outcome was already being steered towards the pre-conceived outcome. #LoanCharge
The hardship, the unprecedented actions, the retrospective nature or maybe... the historical impotence of #HMRC coupled with ministers using retrospective taxation! #LoanCharge#LoanChargeDebacle
Or maybe it was the will of the house, from all sides, even the benches behind him.
Taxpayers taking professional advice, declaration of arrangements to #HMRC - who did nothing, except make this into the #LoanChargeDebacle !!