Richard Burgon MP, Labour’s Shadow Treasury Minister, responding to the reports today over the tax arrangements of Netflix, said:

“George Osborne needs to get a grip of this issue in the new year, as after being Chancellor for 5 years he has no one else left to blame but himself.

"Many families will be paying to sit down together this Christmas to watch programmes on Netflix and won’t expect that the money they give may be undermining British businesses.

"Because it’s the businesses and taxpayers who pay their taxes who have to carry the burden for those who do not.

“This only further makes George Osborne’s decision to close 153 tax offices at HMRC look like another mistake from a Chancellor who, only last month was shown over the police and tax credit u-turns, to cut first and think later.”

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