Budget 2016: IFS savages tax claims as 'rhetorical nonsense'

Institute for Fiscal Studies calls Osborne's points about lower income jobs disingenuous and slams fuel duty freeze

The Institute for Fiscal Studies has criticised George Osborne for a misleading budget pledge to help Britain's lowest paid workers, and warned that the chancellor's new soft drinks tax could backfire by raising sugar consumption.

The respected thinktank used its closely watched post-budget analysis to highlight "disingenuousness" in Osborne's claims he was taking the lowest paid "out of tax".

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