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Badenoch’s department wrote to Treasury after Dyson lobbying over potential tax break

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James Dyson asked Kemi Badenoch to address rises in corporation tax.

Minutes of meeting show Dyson board member Ian Robertson lobbied her on the patent box tax benefit.

Dyson 's letter said the current regime was “starving ambitious companies of vital investment cash”.

Kemi Badenoch said a flat tax rate is an attractive idea’ a policy which would hike taxes by 1,200 on lower earners.

The Dyson company is one of the biggest filers of patents in the UK , the Guardian reported last year , second only behind Jaguar Land Rover .

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