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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Kalyeena Makortoff and Anna Isaac

How private equity convinced Labour to go easy on its multimillion pound tax perk

London's Canary Wharf financial district.
London's Canary Wharf financial district. Private equity professionals shared £3.7bn worth of carried interest payouts in 2023. Photograph: Lefteris Pitarakis/AP

“I’m glad I don’t have to look into moving to Paris, put it that way,” said one senior private equity manager from his office near Gloucester Road tube station in the wealthy London enclave of Kensington.

He was among a raft of private equity bosses nursing hangovers in some of the capital’s smartest postcodes on Thursday, a day after the Labour party unveiled its first budget in 14 years. “I don’t often drink these days but a few of us did go out for drinks to celebrate,” he chuckled.

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