You think the government is fighting tax avoidance? Think again | Richard Brooks

George Osborne has pulled off a stunning confidence trick: he has bamboozled people into thinking he is fighting tax dodgers Chancellors of the exchequer have never been entirely straight about their tinkering with the tax system. With his penchant for "stealth taxes", Gordon Brown certainly didn't always come clean with the British public. But when it comes to the vexed subject of tax avoidance, his successor George Osborne has taken the deception to a new level and, after three years, pulled o...