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UK freeports—the tax angle

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Published on: 21 October 2020
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  • Will freeports allow the UK to ‘sail onto [its] next, great, prosperous destination’?

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Tax analysis: Timothy Jarvis, partner, and Robert O’Hare, senior tax policy advisor, at Squire Patton Boggs consider the tax implications of the recently announced UK freeports.

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