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Government Business as Usual

Pretty standard stuff really. I remember all the Customer Service departments in IBM being moved to Greenock in Scotland because of the tax breaks and other incentives that the UK Government was offering companies to move there so as to bring in more business in the area for cheaper costs.

All that happened is that the move to cheaper Scotland ended up becoming a move to even cheaper India !!

And its all legal if they can argue that it will bring business and jobs in to the area in a magnitude that equals or exceeds the tax breaks thrown in.

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Will they have to drag him back like last time?
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