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ALEX BRUMMER: Wealth and stealth tax farce must end

ALEX BRUMMER: Wealth and stealth tax farce must end

Successive Chancellors have become obsessed with taxing us surreptitiously. There is a foolish belief the public might not notice why the state is making them poorer.

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