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Ian Conting

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IAN CONTING, a corporate tax manager in industry, looks at section 707, Taxes Act 1988.

INVESTORS IN MARKS and Spencer plc who recently received a circular detailing the company's proposed return of £2 billion to shareholders might have been intrigued by the following paragraph towards the end of the (relatively user-friendly) taxation section:

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