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. 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.
"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 Hereford, Ross and across South Herefordshire 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?
"Further discussion must be given to this matter, and not simply for reasons of income, fairness and equity but because the integrity of the political process."
