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Business Tax Reforms

Alistair Darling, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, has been at the centre of concern over business taxes, following the furore over the generous tax breaks given to Private Equity Partnerships and the recent revelation, in a National Audit Office report, that a third of the UK's biggest businesses paid no corporation tax in the last financial year.

They are the taxes on the Private Equity industry that look most likely to face reform since the huge deals hit the headlines earlier in the summer and it was revealed that many top executives at Private Equity firms paid very little personal tax. They achieved this mainly by using capital gains tax relief to maximum advantage and the use of debt. (for more detailed analysis of this please refer to our July issue)

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