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Danny Alexander: 'Tax evaders are like pickpockets'

Danny Alexander has announced new penalties for companies that help clients evade tax, in the wake of the HSBC affair.

The chief secretary to the Treasury told the Marr show: "We should create a new offence of corporate failure to avoid preventing an economic crime and also that organisations who facilitate or encourage evasion should face the same penalty as the evaders themselves."

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