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Daily Record
Daily Record
National
John Ferguson

SNP teamed up with Tories to stop rules outlawing giving tax avoidance companies public cash

The SNP teamed up with the Tories to torpedo rules that would have outlawed handing public money to tax avoidance companies, the Sunday Mail can reveal.

We told last week how Nicola Sturgeon’s new Scottish National Investment Bank (SNIB) is ploughing £50million into a forestry fund run by asset managers Gresham House.

The firm for “high-net-worth” clients seeking “tax-efficient structures” has offshore links and chairman Anthony Townsend was named in the Paradise Papers.

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