Julie Cooper – 2016 Parliamentary Question to the HM Treasury

The below Parliamentary question was asked by Julie Cooper on 2016-03-07.

To ask Mr Chancellor of the Exchequer, what assessment his Department has made of the effect of raising the state pension age on levels of tax avoidance.

Mr David Gauke

Information on the impacts of State Pension age rises can be found in Annex A of the Pensions Act 2011 Impact Assessment, and in Annex B of the Pensions Act 2014 at:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pensions-act-2011-impact-assessment

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/pensions-act-2014-impact-assessments-may-2014

The department has not made an assessment of the impact of raising the State Pension age on tax avoidance.

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