Qantas loses altitude on US tax comparison
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It's not just President Donald Trump's cuts to the corporate tax rate that have Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce looking wistfully at his US competitors.
It's not just President Donald Trump's cuts to the corporate tax rate that have Qantas chief executive Alan Joyce looking wistfully at his US competitors.
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