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David Gauke, Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, said that to remove any doubt about a tax avoidance scheme's effectiveness, legislation had been changed in relation to the following numbers of disclosed schemes since 2005:

David Gauke, Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, said that to remove any doubt about a tax avoidance scheme's effectiveness, legislation had been changed in relation to the following numbers of disclosed schemes since 2005:

 

Number

1 June 2005 - 31 May 2006

223

1 June 2006 - 31 May 2007

173

1 June 2007 - 31 May 2008

101

1 June 2008 - 31 May 2009

40

1 June 2009 - 31 May 2010

18

1 June 2010 - 31 May 2011

17

Legislative changes were ‘just one of the ways’ in which HMRC may respond to disclosures made under the disclosure regime, and each disclosed scheme may have multiple users, he said.

Source: Commons written answer, 19 October 2011

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