TAX NEWS - June 2010

VAT is an unfair tax which will clobber everyone in Britain

Let's get one thing clear about George Osborne's dishonest Budget: VAT is an unfair tax which will clobber everyone in Britain - and the poorest hardest.

Raising tax is a purse-pinching, walletstealing crime that exposes the lie of the Chancellor's claim to believe in fairness.

As Labour leadership contender Ed Balls makes clear in today's Mirror, VAT is a regressive Tory levy on the people of Britain. Mr Osborne's raid on ordinary, hard-working families was avoidable.

Yet he chose to hit them in the pocket. That tells you everything you need to know about the ConDems.