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God forbid that the United Kingdom should take a lead and introduce a sensible tax system of its own which would probably comprise a very low level of corporation tax - tax on corporate profits - and perhaps a low level of corporate sales tax, because sales are where they are, and sales in this country are sales here, which we can tax here.

From Nigel Lawson

I have to say to the Government that you are not even getting nowhere fast - you are getting nowhere slowly.

From Nigel Lawson

You have got to clear up that corporation tax in the modern way has had its day as a major source of revenue, and we have got to find a new system.

From Nigel Lawson

However useful computer models may be, the one thing they cannot be is evidence. Computer climate models are simply conjectures.

From Nigel Lawson

Those who claim that to leave the E.U. would damage the City are the very same as those who in the past confidently predicted, with a classic failure of understanding, that the City would be gravely damaged if the U.K. failed to adopt the euro as its currency.

From Nigel Lawson

In terms of the arguments, I think the pro-Leave campaign is winning them all.

From Nigel Lawson

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