Tax is the new saving

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Bear with me while I indulge in my favorite pastime of moaning, before bringing it back to why we all have reasons to moan.

So far this week I have been taxed in my head to such an extreme I wonder why I work. If you have not been to this place, the chances are your clients are just before they meet you. I jest. The front cover of the Daily Telegraph told me that 'council tax doubles in ten years' in Wednesday’s issue. The average band D bill will rise to near 1500 next year from 700 in 1997 because the council and government have spent too much money on bickering, or something like that. In the same issue I was ecstatic to read 'inflation busting fare rise will price people off the trains' with my own Kent...

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