Finance (No. 2) Bill 1998 — Regulations to allow the implementation of rules that would introduce instalment payments of corporation tax — 27 Apr 1998
Christopher Fraser MP, Mid Dorset and North Poole voted in the minority (No).
The majority Aye voters passed a set of regulations[1] that would enable the government to require instalment payments of corporation tax by large companies[2].
The system at this time was that large companies paid their corporation tax nine months after the end of their accounting period.
On 7 January 1999 the Corporation Tax (Instalment Payments) Regulations 1998 came into force which implemented the regulations discussed in this particular vote.
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- [1] Motion that Clause 30 stand part of the Finance (No. 2) Bill 1998, House of Commons, 27 April 1998
- [2] Finance (No. 2) Bill 1998, Clause 30, (pdf document - scroll to page 24)
Party Summary
Votes by party, red entries are votes against the majority for that party.
What is Tell? '+1 tell' means that in addition one member of that party was a teller for that division lobby.
What are Boths? An MP can vote both aye and no in the same division. The boths page explains this.
What is Turnout? This is measured against the total membership of the party at the time of the vote.
Party | Majority (Aye) | Minority (No) | Both | Turnout |
Con | 0 | 121 (+2 tell) | 0 | 75.9% |
Independent | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
Independent Conservative | 1 | 0 | 0 | 100.0% |
Lab | 249 (+2 tell) | 0 | 0 | 60.2% |
LDem | 20 | 0 | 0 | 43.5% |
PC | 3 | 0 | 0 | 75.0% |
SNP | 2 | 0 | 0 | 33.3% |
Total: | 276 | 121 | 0 | 63.0% |
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