Health insurance - IPT rise: A bitter pill
With the failure of the industry's efforts to persuade the Treasury to freeze, or indeed lower, insurance premium tax on private medical insurance, Veronica Cowan looks at what it would take to lobby more effectively.
The insurance industry's prescribed methods of trying to persuade the Treasury not to raise insurance premium tax on private medical insurance in the Finance (No 2) Act 2010 has failed — and
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