Although it has lost a few key cases, the IRS still loathes family partnerships and remains unrelenting in its scrutiny of them.

FORBES: Partners, But Not With The Irs

And if George Osborne agrees with Sir Mervyn that RBS and Lloyds aren't lending enough, then the remedy remains the one it has always been and the one he loathes: he could exercise his rights as their biggest shareholder and order them to increase their appetite for risk.

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