Early day motion calls for a resolution to the loan charge

An early day motion (EDM 927) on the loan charge has been tabled by MPs calling for a resolution and also an investigation into the loan charge and the way it has been handled as well as the fact ten people have taken their own lives. The motion was tabled by Karl Turner who is a member of the all-party parliamentary loan charge and taxpayer fairness group and supported by Sammy Wilson and other group members. 

Further more than 150 parliamentarians have now signed the open letter to the prime minister and chancellor urging a resolution to ‘the loan charge scandal’.

The letter states: ‘If the government does not act to instruct HMRC to change course we are fearful of what the consequences will be as thousands of people simply cannot pay the huge sums being demanded.’

The early...