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Add your voice to our tax campaign

Posted on 21 October 2009
by Zopian blogger in Archive

You’ll see that something of a lively debate is taking place on this BBC blog.

Earlier today I responded to earlier comments on the thread that mentioned Zopa, to say that a simple change to the tax laws would make Zopa lending a much stronger competitor to the banks. As I said, we have gained cross-party support for this endeavour, but we’d welcome the support of any lender out there who’d like to add their voice to the thread of comments on the BBC blog, or why not email the Chancellor direct at ministers at hm-treasury dot gov dot uk?

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