'What do we expect from MPs?', asks Simon Sweetman

It’s time to examine some consciences when it comes to MPs’ dodgy expense claims, says Simon Sweetman.

The current brouhaha about expenses seems to consist very largely of one body of people known to have interesting views about legitimate expenses claims (journalists) about another body that seems to take a similarly broad approach.

There are two questions to asked from a tax point of view; one regarding the expenses claims and the other on the matter of CGT elections for MPs’ ‘main residence’.