The AMT is a shadow tax system ostensibly designed to make sure that fat cats with tax breaks like oil-well depletion pay at least some tax.

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On 2 March 2011, Dr Fox was summoned to the Commons to make a statement on the plans after Speaker John Bercow accepted shadow defence secretary Jim Murphy's application for an urgent question.

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Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley said Tory policies would make a difference.

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