Osborne’s Swiss tax raid to net 5bn pound windfall, but is it fair?
Faisal Islam asks if the Chancellor has played a blinder on the Switzerland tax haven – or if he’s wasted an opportunity.
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As George Osborne agrees a deal to recoup £5bn in unpaid tax from UK nationals banking in the secretive Swiss system, Channel 4 News pries open the vault doors of the world’s biggest tax havens.
Faisal Islam asks if the Chancellor has played a blinder on the Switzerland tax haven – or if he’s wasted an opportunity.
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