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pcernie

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Barclays to close 'tax avoidance' unit

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-21397844

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Re: Barclays to close 'tax avoidance' unit

They might just rebrand the unit. They make too much money from it to simply close it. They might not have a tax avoidance unit as such but I suspect that it will still be there somewhere.

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Sun Feb 10, 2013 8:31 am

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Re: Barclays to close 'tax avoidance' unit

they have just moved it to another department
so it can be better hidden, shurg ...

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Re: Barclays to close 'tax avoidance' unit


	MrStevenRogers wrote: they have just moved it to another department so it can be better hidden, shurg ...

They probably want the better publicity of closing the unit but still want the profits from that unit.

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