Grant Thornton’s senior tax partner worries government efforts to create a competitive tax system could be thwarted by sensational media attention of corporate tax avoidanceIn his 2013 Budget, the Chancellor reinforced the government’s objective of ‘building the most competitive tax system in the world’. It is clear this is a policy it is determined to see through. Since the coalition came to power, the main rate of corporation tax will have fallen from 28% in 2010, to 20% by April 2015. In addition, the government has introduced several new tax incentives in an attempt show ‘that Britain is open for business’.