Unless you are fluent in Welsh, you might not know that 'hafan treth' means tax haven. But it's a phrase you may become more familiar with after the BBC documentary charting the bid by a group of small business owners in the Welsh town of Crickhowell to copy the tax avoidance tactics of many a multinational company with the fair tax town campaign. In the process, they have managed to upset their own Lord Crickhowell, who served as Welsh secretary under Margaret Thatcher last century. The peer had urged local businesses to tone down their criticisms of Chancellor George Osborne. But our man in the Brecon Beacons dismissed the lord as merely being 'part of the establishment'.
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