Osborne unveils radical package to tackle tax evasion #AS2013

The package would raise £9bn for the Treasury over the next five years, George Osborne said. Measures include preventing employment intermediaries from disguising employment as self-employment to avoid tax, and introducing a new power requiring taxpayers using avoidance schemes that have already been defeated in the courts to pay the tax they are trying to avoid upfront. Osborne was delivering his Autumn Statement in the House of Commons on Thursday. BBC Business editor Robert Peston said: "The tax avoidance measures sound quite ambitious - and may well be causing jitters in the Ci...