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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Phillip Inman and Jamie Grierson

BIZARRE: Labour creates tax panel to help it clamp down on avoiders - You Need To See This

She is blue jacket in front of 'Tory Tax' poster
Rachel Reeves and shadow paymaster general Jonathan Ashworth campaign in Blackpool last week. Photograph: Christopher Furlong/Getty

Labour has appointed an expert panel to advise the party on ways to tackle tax avoidance following its plan to reap £5bn from a crackdown on tax dodgers.

The party’s shadow financial secretary, James Murray, said the independent group would also advise on how to modernise the tax authority, which has come under fire from MPs for failing to claw back an “eye-watering” amount of owed tax. He said the panel offered decades of experience.

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