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BRITAIN’S super-rich are planning to hide cash desperately needed for schools, hospitals and other public services from an incoming Labour government.
According to Tilney Investment Management Services, schemes are being formulated by mean-fisted asset managers and individuals to protect their wealth from reforms that would see Britain’s wealthiest pay their fair share of tax.
Labour blasted such plans, pledging to end the “rigged economy” and invest in public services, saying the party’s economic policies would end austerity and build “a society for the many, not the few.”
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