UK plc demands an end to tax labyrinth

In 1981, when Sir Geoffrey Howe revealed what was later described as the most important Budget of the Thatcher era, the number of pages in the Finance Act implementing all the tax changes came to the princely sum of 144.

2010. March 20. 19:07

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