The worst tax measures can be avoided because experts can point out the pitfalls in any ideas before they are law.

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Brussels has said that any trade in non-compliant eggs "should be avoided" but any further measures to ensure compliance needed more consideration.

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It deftly avoided a direct government bail-out (though it benefited from measures taken in Britain and America to keep money flowing to the banking system).

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