Lowering corporation tax doesn’t boost foreign investment
Prospective prime minister Liz Truss has promised to keep UK corporation tax low, yet this is unlikely to boost foreign investment into the country.
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Jon Whiteaker
Jon Whiteaker is a senior editor at Investment Monitor focusing on FDI in the energy sector. He is also Middle East and Africa editor. He joined from Euromoney Institutional Investor. He has been a business and finance journalist for more than a decade, five of which he spent as the editor of IJGlobal – a leading news and data title covering energy and infrastructure finance. Jon has reported on transactions and investment trends across all continents and is an experienced leader and participant in industry events.
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