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Midnight on Sunday is the deadline to get your personal tax return in.

It’s an experience that many people come to dread.

And since the Chancellor tweeted that the tax deal he struck with Google was a “major success” – despite potentially meaning an effective tax rate of around three per cent when most small businesses pay 20 per cent – many taxpayers will now be feeling angry when they fill in their forms.

More worrying is that it will have created a lack of confidence in those politicians who manage our tax system.

And I wouldn’t blame people for feeling like this when some experts have estimated that Google should be paying £200million a year in tax.

Rather than the £130million over 10 years as a result of the deal that George Osborne struck.

This is money that if the Chancellor was collecting could have meant an additional £1billion over this parliament for public services, which he is cutting.

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When I heard about the Google tax deal, I immediately called for full disclosure and transparency of the deal, but George Osborne has refused.

Then the Prime Minister refused to support his Chancellor’s view that it was a “major success”.

This led to George Osborne spending the past week in hiding.

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And he didn’t even show up to the House of Commons to answer my questions on the deal.

Instead, he sent a junior minister along, who when asked if he knew how much tax Google paid, said he didn’t know.

As the week went on we discovered that the same Tory minister standing in for George Osborne not only didn’t know, he didn’t care.

It turns out that the minister, David Gauke, has toured the USA promising what some would describe as “mates’ rates” for these companies on tax.

It was also revealed that other neighbouring countries such as Italy and France could be clawing back far more money from tech firms like Google than we are – making Britain the laughing stock of Europe.

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And as if that wasn’t enough, it also turns out that senior Conservative ministers had met on 25 different occasions with Google before this derisory deal was made.

After this week it has only helped to confirm a belief I have long held.

The Chancellor, the politician with sole responsibility for setting taxation, should be open and transparent about their own income.

That is why in the spirit of the “New Politics” I have taken the decision to publish my personal tax returns.

And I will do so every year while I seek to be and hopefully one day become Chancellor.

I think it is only fair that politicians set a good example. Especially those charged with or those who aspire to oversee the nations finances.