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Andrew Flint takes a sideways look at the month's tax news

 
Andrew Flint takes a sideways look at the month's tax news
 
Is it just me getting older or does Budget time seem to roll around that much quicker these days?
 
Once more with aspect stern and gloomy stride we come to learn how Gordon Brown decides on the old tax and spend front. Except we mustn't say Tax and Spend lest there be tantrums in the nursery which only reference to the bogeyman Boomanbust may calm.
 
The generally held view seems to be that as a matter of economics Mr Brown must increase taxes but as a matter of politics he can't. You might say that philosophically he is stuck between politics and economics.1 He finds...

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