Deputy PM David Lammy Claimed Almost £7,000 For Help With His Tax Returns

David Lammy has charged taxpayers nearly £7,000 for help with his tax return.

The senior Labour MP used his Commons expenses to pay accountants’ fees 10 times before the practice was outlawed last year.

Figures published by the Parliamentary pay body reveal that he first used public money for the service back in 2012, with a £936 claim for ’60 per cent of accountants’ fees’.

He continued to claim back more than £600 a year for ‘parliamentary accountancy’ for much of the next decade, with a final claim for £247 in March 2024.

In total, his claims came to £6,604 before the Independent Parliamentary Standards Authority (IPSA) declared that it would no longer ‘accept any claims relating to preparing a self-assessment tax return’ from the 2024-25 tax year onwards.

A spokesman for Mr Lammy, who is now Deputy Prime Minister and Lord Chancellor, insisted his claims were made and declared in line with rules set out by IPSA.

But John O’Connell of the TaxPayers’ Alliance campaign group said: ‘Taxpayers up and down the country are finding the tax burden ever more burdensome with successive chancellors raising rates, freezing thresholds and layering on complexity.

‘With the Deputy Prime Minister’s Government being the worst culprit of this, he should be considering how this will look to his constituents.’

And independent tax consultant David Whiscombe said: ‘I’m sure that many MPs with income and gains from non-parliamentary sources have complicated tax affairs which warrant taking professional advice. But that has never been a reason, in my view, to expect the cost to be funded by the public.

‘Being an MP does not of itself complicate an individual’s tax affairs to the extent that it makes it necessary to take professional advice. In my view, IPSA’s change of practice is justified and overdue.’

It just goes to show that some MPs are screwing the taxpayer, and we’ve still got three and a half years of these Labour cheats – roll on 2029.

However, before they’re gone, they will have us paying tens of billions more to the EU that we will be tied into for decades, even though Labour keeps on finding even more black holes that we, the taxpayers, have to fill and that will not benefit the UK or its people.

Not only that, they are giving away our freedoms, and the population here will have risen by another 10 million, as they said they wanted to welcome another 5 million foreign workers, even though we have millions unemployed here, but they still keep receiving them, rather than doing anything physical to stop them.

Being a small nation, we are unable to support both those who are already here and those who are being welcomed by our government.

Our MPs have been creaming the system for years, even before Labour. Looks like they’re not as stupid as they look, especially Diane Abbott, who always looks miserable – does the woman ever smile? But then, cunning and intelligence are not the same because they are all self-serving, odious parasites who should be serving prison time.