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19 February 2011updated 17 Jan 2012 5:00am

The daftness of UKUncut

The protests are against the wrong targets.

By David Allen Green

Today, lots of well-meaning people will stand in the rain and drizzle to protest against a profitable bank. This is the UKUncut campaign, which in essence is a general attempt to get corporations to pay tax that they are not legally obliged to pay. It is, at base, a campaign for voluntary tax payments.

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