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The decision in Lloyds Bank Leasing illustrates an inherent problem with TAARs which employ purpose-based tests to restrict the availability of tax expenditure reliefs: since the point of tax reliefs is to alter taxpayer behaviour, why then should taxpayers be denied relief for responding accordingly? 
 

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