UK: Parliamentary Bills update

The Corporation Tax Bill received Royal Assent earlier this week: see here. The Bill, now an Act, will soon be published on the OPSI website. It largely completes the Government's rewrite of the corporation tax code and is the sixth Act produced by the Tax Law Rewrite Project.

The Bribery Bill, which was introduced in the House of Lords, received its Second Reading in the House of Commons on Wednesday: see here. This provided MPs with their first opportunity to debate the Bill. Background information about the Bill, covering debate in the Lords, is available in a House of Commons Library research paper published on 1 March: see here (pdf).