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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Pippa Crerar Political editor

One in six UK public procurement contracts had tax haven link, study finds

A beach in British Virgin Islands
A beach in British Virgin Islands, one of the tax havens in the study. Photograph: Alamy

One in every six public procurement contracts issued by the government over a five-year period were won by businesses with connections to a tax haven, analysis has found.

The companies behind the taxpayer-funded deals were owned by firms that were at least partly domiciled in one of 27 tax havens around the world, including the British Virgin Islands, Panama and Jersey.

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