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Published at 12:01AM, April 24 2012 A landmark victory for Revenue & Customs to deny wealthy investors £117 million in tax relief has ushered in a new era of intolerance towards tax avoidance by the rich. Eclipse 35, a film investment partnership whose members include Sir Alex Ferguson, the Manchester United manager, was barred from claiming tax relief on a complex £1 billion deal with Disney. If the 2007 scheme had succeeded, each of the 289 members of Eclipse 35 could have enjoyed an average of £404,000 in tax relief on a personal investment of £173,000. Other investors included Sven-Göran Eriksson, the former England manager, as well as bankers, chief executive officers and hedge-fund managers. The decision of a tax tribunal could have a wide-reaching effect on dozens of other film schemes as well as other investments designed to achieve high tax reliefs, experts said.
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ONCE the quintessence of Englishness—it has Etonian board members, and emerged 125 years ago from the royal armaments factory—Arsenal Football Club has been coached by Arsène Wenger, a Frenchman, since 1996. The north London team usually fields more French players than English ones. The Eurostar trains to and from Paris even zoom past the club’s Emirates Stadium, a corner of Islington that is forever France. The Frenchification of Arsenal is perhaps the most famous example of a broader French influx to London. This, too, began in earnest in the 1990s as the city boomed with Britain’s economy (though there has been a French presence since the Huguenot migration of the 17th century).
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THE Hand & Racquet sits in Whitcomb Street, just behind the National Gallery in London. A good position, you might think, with tourists passing. A good name, too, recalling a now-vanished tennis court from Charles II’s day.
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