The Bourne Agenda - Taking control. By Claire North

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The government has been looking at the way that foreign profits are taxed for a number of years resulting in the draft foreign profits legislation released in December 2008 and should culminate in a new regime being introduced in the Finance Act 2009. In the meantime there were a number of changes, targeting anti-avoidance, announced in last year’s Budget which were enacted into the Finance Act 2008.

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