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Britain's Plan to Become the Next Switzerland

Britain has already majorly reduced its corporate tax to boost foreign investment and jobs by making it a more desirable—i.e. cheaper—place for multinationals to set up.
Attendees stand in front of a backdrop of the City of London at a "Paris Meets London" meeting organized by Paris Europlace, the French capital's lobby group, at the Shangri-La hotel in The Shard in London, on February 6. Paris could lure as many as 20,000 workers from Britain's finance industry with the exodus potentially starting within weeks as the U.K. begins its withdrawal from the European Union, according to Europlace.
Brexit Tax

If Britain’s exit from the EU goes horribly wrong, the U.K. government has hinted at a contingency plan: radically reduce corporate tax rates, turning Britain into an irresistible tax haven for international companies. In an interview in January with the German newspaper , Britain’s finance minister, , suggested that if the EU were to impose damaging trade

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