David Cameron's admission that he owned,
sold and made a profit on shares held in a controversial fund before he
became PM has prompted a Labour MP to call for him to resign.
Labour MP and Treasury Select Committee member John Mann -
who has been a high-profile campaigner for more tax transparency -
suggested Mr Cameron "has no choice but to resign" and called him a
"hypocrite".
And Labour's deputy leader Tom Watson said the PM may need to quit and has more questions to answer.
He told Sky News: "He has to be fully transparent. It's no
good just saying he's going to publish his tax returns because that
won't show what his investment portfolio was and we need to know that
now."
Mr Watson added: "He's condemned other people in public life
for being morally wrong whilst knowing he's had investments in these
kind of schemes himself and that shows double standards and people don't
like that."
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PM Had Shares In Offshore Fund
Mr Cameron last night admitted for the first time he held shares in the fund set up by his late father.
The Prime Minister has faced questions this week over his
family's tax affairs after details of Ian Cameron's investment fund were
reported as part of the Panama Papers leak.
Number 10 has said he will publish his own tax returns "in the coming weeks".
Mr Cameron has previously suggested he was prepared to
publish his tax returns - including in an interview with Sky News in
2012 - but is yet to do so.
Downing Street initially said his family's tax affairs were a
private matter before saying the PM had no offshore funds and trusts,
and then making clear the family would not benefit in future.
In response to a question from Sky's Faisal Islam at an event on Wednesday,
the PM said: "I have no shares, no offshore trusts, no offshore funds, nothing like that."
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Now in his fifth statement on the matter, Mr Cameron said he
and his wife sold shares worth more than £30,000 in Blairmore Holdings
six years ago.
The couple bought their holding in April 1997 for £12,497 and sold it in January 2010 for £31,500, according to Downing Street.
The PM said the pair's profit was "subject to all the UK
taxes in the normal ways" and it was just below the threshold at which
capital gains tax would have applied.
The annual personal allowance for an individual in 2009-10
was £10,100 - meaning jointly the profit was just outside the threshold.
He also said his father left him £300,000, adding: "I obviously can't point to every source of every bit of the money."
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According to The Guardian,
papers leaked
from Panama-based law firm Mossack Fonseca are said to suggest Ian
Cameron ran a fund that avoided having to pay tax in Britain by hiring
Bahamas residents to sign its paperwork.
But the PM insisted it was a "fundamental misconception"
that the fund was set up to avoid tax, saying his father was being
"unfairly written about".
He also said he did not have "anything to hide" about his financial affairs.
Mr Cameron told ITV News: "I paid income tax on the
dividends, but there was a profit on it but it was less than the capital
gains tax allowance.
"So I didn't pay capital gains tax, but it was subject to all the UK taxes in all the normal ways.
"So I want to be as clear as I can about the past, about the
present, about the future, because frankly, I don't have anything to
hide.
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"I'm proud of my dad and what he did and the business he established and all the rest of it.
"I can't bear to see his name being dragged through the mud,
as you can see, and for my own, I chose to take a different path from
my father, grandfather and great-grandfather, who were all stockbrokers.
"And I've got nothing to hide in my arrangements and I'm very happy to answer questions about it."
Earlier this week the prime minister of Iceland, who was
named in the Panama Papers leak, resigned after thousands called for him
to quit.
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