Amy Kitcher: Freeloading millionaires should not be propped up by Merthyr and Rhymney residents

5.59.00pm GMT Tue 5th Jan 2010

Hard working families will be better off under a Lib Dem government

The Liberal Democrats have led a debate in the House of Commons in which they have called for tax rules to be changed so that UK-based millionaires, who claim to live elsewhere, pay their full share.

Despite Labour having called for a change to rules relating to such individuals as early as 1994, and having pledged to review those rules almost eight years ago, the law still allows many individuals to avoid tax by claiming they are based elsewhere.

Lib Dem MP Norman Baker led the debate attacking the government's record, and also called for David Cameron to get tough on Conservative donors and candidates who fail to pay taxes in this country. The law still allow many individuals to avoid tax by claiming they are based elsewhere.

Commenting on the parliamentary debate Amy Kitcher said,

"My Liberal Democrat colleagues in Parliament have raised the topical issue of non-doms, which is important in terms of both income to the Government and an ethical approach to politics. Why should hard-working people in Merthyr Tydfil and Rhymney who do an honest day's work and pay their taxes in full, have to put up with a regime that sees freeloading millionaires swan around avoiding tax apparently with the help of Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs and the Treasury?

""We cannot have clean politics in this country until we set and apply a very clear principle, which is that no Member of Parliament, whether in the Commons or the Lords, should be sitting here if they declare themselves to be non-domiciled for tax purposes."