<p>Government efforts to tackle tax avoidance too often address the symptoms of that avoidance rather than its root causes, a discussion paper written for the Tax Law Review Committee of the Institute for Fiscal Studies argues today.</p>
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Malcolm Gammie
Research Fellow One Essex Court
Malcolm is Chairman of the Tax Law Review Committee at IFS.
Tracey Bowler
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