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Founder of UK's only free tax clinic is heading to US as a Fulbright Scholar

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David Forsyth
Aug 20, 2024
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Dr Amy Lawton

When Albert Einstein, one of the greatest minds the world has ever seen, was asked how he dealt with filling out his tax return, he replied: “It is too difficult for a mathematician. It takes a philosopher.”

Income tax was, the great physicist and mathematician opined, “the hardest thing in the world to understand.” So, if it was difficult f…

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