A previous Labour Occasion chairman was questioned by the tax authorities immediately after he acquired nearly £140,000 in payments and penned-off loans from his trade union. Ian Lavery, the MP for Wansbeck in Northumberland, advised i an HMRC enquiry into his tax affairs uncovered there was “no more evaluation necessary” but he declined to reply repeated questions on whether he had declared all his payments and financial loans from the Northumberland Countrywide Union of Mineworkers (NUM). Mr Lavery, who led the smaller department of the NUM just before getting an MP, benefited from these arrangements in between 2007 to 2013. Dan Neidle, the tax attorney who received lawful threats right…