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Newsletter: April 2018

April 25, 2018

Our newsletter for April 2018 focused on the taxpayer-funded Persimmon executive payout, the massive $8.5bn incentives package the state of Maryland has offered Amazon for HQ2 in the US, job cuts in the UK auto […]

Persimmon bosses get rich while the company benefits from corporate welfare and British taxpayers.

£104m in Persimmon executive pay highlights key problem of corporate welfare

April 16, 2018

The news, reported by The Guardian in March, that Persimmon paid three executives a combined salary of £104m in 2017 highlights a key problem of UK corporate welfare practices — they can be exploited by individuals […]