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Originally Posted by martyh
surely this would be political suicide
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He's already committed suicide and Brown's been up to these tricks for years - it's just that when things were artificially 'booming' less people noticed or cared.
http://www.moneyweek.com/news-and-ch...ecomes-pm.aspx
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The annual weigh-in of the latest edition of “accountants’ bible”, Tolley’s Tax Handbook shows that the latest tax guide runs to 9,800 pages, more than twice its 4,555 page length when Labour came to power in 1997. Bob Rothenberg of accountancy firm Blick Rothenberg told The Telegraph: “So-called simplification of the tax rules has made them substantially more complicated. This has become a form of stealth tax because it is much more difficult for people to deal with their own tax affairs.”
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Originally Posted by danielf
Sounds like the usual load of porkies from the Daily Fail to me.
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Could be but then again Brown and New Labour haven't exactly been models of honesty and integrity over the last decade have they and it seems like the Daily Telegraph was reporting this issue back in December:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...ce-houses.html
Stealth taxes have been Brown's speciality since 1997 after all. Anyway would we expect anything different? Thanks to Brown's imprudence, UK PLC is in a right royal mess and one way or another we're all going to pay more tax. It's unlikely that, having lied about tax rises so often, Brown's going to break the habit of a political lifetime and come clean so we should all expect more stealth taxes..