In reply to dissonance:
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> it isnt the best written article in the world but the last part does seem fairly clear it is an ongoing problem.
The last part just read like a bog standard anti capitalist rant.
> Also i cant help but feel it isnt quite as simple an anomaly as you make up, otherwise the companies would have switched and no one would be complaining.
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There will be other reasons why branch status may be attractive to some companies. The tax anomaly is probably distorting business decisions.
> the overall point still stands in his article though. If the talk is that taxes cant be cut then the logical thing to do is to resolve the anomaly the other way, particularly since it aint the norm.
But that is not the point he makes not is it the logical outcome of the Tories' declared preference for lower taxes.