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Taxpayers own 82 percent of RBS since it was bailed out at the height of the global financial crisis in 2008
Carl Court
The chief executive of state-rescued Royal Bank of Scotland has turned down his hotly-disputed bonus. Taxpayers own 82 percent of RBS since it was bailed out at the height of the global financial crisis in 2008, and since then it has slashed tens of thousands of jobs.