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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
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David Lynch

Budget 2023: Senior Tories call for rethink on corporation tax rise to boost growth

Hiking corporation tax to 25% is “not a good approach” to encouraging investment in the UK, senior Tory Jacob Rees-Mogg has warned the Government.

The former business secretary hit out at the planned tax rise for companies while describing tax allowances in the Budget as an attempt to “salami-slice” the hike to “pretend it’s not much of a rise”.

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