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13 February 2013updated 22 Oct 2020 3:55pm

The government’s “patent box” is the tax avoidance package companies have been begging for

It might incentivise innovation, but it definitely incentivises paying far less tax.

By Tony McKenna

The Conservative party back-benches are seething with rebellion. Not only do ministers deplore David Cameron for an un-Tory like attitude toward gay marriage, in recent weeks he has further upset them with a positively radical spiel directed against those super-corporations the conservative leader suspects of tax avoidance:

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