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Accountants deny ‘new tax dodge’

July 6, 2009

BBC News

A big accountancy firm has denied that it has been peddling a tax avoidance scheme to help rich people avoid paying the new 50% income tax rate from 2010.

Newspaper reports have accused Grant Thornton of devising a scheme to save high earners 40% of their tax bills.

Continue reading at news.bbc.co.uk

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