Summary
"LABOUR'S secret spending plans, which Gordon Brown never wanted to make public, appear to reveal an income tax bombshell," squawks the shadow chancellor, "exposing" Labour's plans to raise another Pounds 50billion in income tax by 2013-14.
Within a couple of hours the PM's attack dogs, or counterattack dogs, have a response: these plans aren't secret. They were published in the budget last spring: didn't you get your copy? That half covers it. It's possible that the plans were both secret and in the Budget. One of Gordon Brown's great clevernesses is to hide his tax plans in plain sight, using complicated sums. He is a stealth taxer of Olympic prowess, a ball-and-cups shuffler to put Oxford Street hustlers to shame.See the full content of this document
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Can't George Do the Stealth Tax Sums?
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