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Guest post: On David Cameron and inheritance tax

To avoid tax you have to do a thing which cuts your tax bill. Fail to do that thing and your tax bill is higher. But do it and you’ve avoided tax compared with an alternative world – economists call it a counterfactual but you and I would call it an overdraft – in which your tax bill is higher.

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