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Morning Call: Let’s do a £14bn tax cut

How fair is the government’s levy on tobacco products?

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Good morning. Will here. Inflation is a tax. Rishi Sunak was right to contradict Laura Kuenssberg on this point earlier this month, and BBC Verify is wrong to assert that it is not a tax, simply because it is not announced as a formal charge or levy in the Budget.

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