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which made i mean, you hardly have to be bernstein and woodward for your antennae to twing at that. then there was that amazing story in the independent claiming that mr zahawi had been under investigation at one point by the nca, sf0 and hmrc, and apparently they found nothing. zahawi denied it, but i m familiar with those investigations. normally the subject doesn t know they re being investigated. so, what i then did is kind of what my dayjob was when i was a tax lawyer. people think tax lawyers are their dreaming up tax avoidance schemes. not in the last 20 years, they re not. what they normally do is much less glamourous. you ve got a client who s thinking of taking over a company. what are the tax skeletons in that companies closet? because if you buy it and it finds out they did bad tax stuff, that s going to cost you, the buyer, money. so, entirely selfish capitalism incentives drive companies acquiring other companies and the tax lawyer