Business also got a bung, in the form of a faster write-off on investments.

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If the rhetoric of this election campaign starts with a bung, the language could get more explosive closer to polling day and in the budget decisions that follow.

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When Bond was told of the filming he said that he was not interested in receiving bungs and that no-one he had ever worked with had taken a bung.

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