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English In Use - Good bean counters?

A selection of headlines from stories in the news. They use English in a way that you might think is intended to confuse but it's all perfectly clear to the native speaker.

The headline in the Independent uses a business English idiom to illustrate a story about how Starbucks has paid no tax in the UK since 2009.  In spite of sales of around £1.2 bn during this period, they have used tax avoidance tactics to dodge the tax man.  Bean counter is an idiom for an accountant.  

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