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Skydive, skyfall

29 September 2015 / Mike Truman
Issue: 4520 / Categories: Comment & Analysis
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The decisions in recent enterprise investment scheme appeals have elicited varying degrees of sympathy.
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Sometimes when I look at tribunal cases in which the taxpayer has lost I find it hard to summon up much sympathy. 
 
Why did they do that I ask myself. Or did they seriously think that a judge with years of tax experience was really going to believe they were not thinking mostly (or only) about the tax advantage when they took...

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