U.S. film festival cancels award to UK film after tax scam

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U.S. film festival cancels award to UK film after tax scam

LONDON (Reuters) - A U.S. film festival has withdrawn an award given to a British movie about a Gulf War veteran seeking justice after a London court jailed five people for making the movie as part of 2.8 million pound ($4.3 million) tax scam. Tax inspectors were told that A-listers from Hollywood would be starring in a 19.6 million pound production that would be shot in Britain. But the gang never intended to make the film "Landscape Of Lives," Southwark Crown Court in London heard on Monday. "The real intent was to defraud the public purse of nearly 1. ...

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