George Osborne is experiencing yet another tax nightmare after being forced into a humiliating withdrawal over his controversial cuts to tax credits.
The ensuing furore is making people remember the time the Chancellor took to national television to advocate avoiding pesky taxes altogether.
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But in footage from the BBC's Daily Politics programme aired in 2003, above, Osborne talks viewers through helpful ways to lower their tax obligations - not quite in keeping with his current role as tax-collector-in-chief.
A younger George Osborne advises how to avoid inheritance tax
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