The Conservative plan to hike taxes without you noticing
(World News UK)

Jean-Baptiste Colbert, a seventeenth-century French finance minister, once said “the art of taxation consists in so plucking the goose as to obtain the largest possible amount of feathers with the smallest possible amount of hissing�. He might have been describing rumoured Tory plans to raise the income tax burden for millions by stealth in November’s Budget. One might think that, with the overall tax burden at its highest level in three decades, the government would be focusing on spending incontinence. Read more: This business group wants Philip Hammond to stop reducing corporation tax Instead,...