Last Week I Mentioned How Tax Bands On UK Houses Would Be Going Up,

well these two guys below are the masterminds of it,

Prof David Tretton and, below, Paul Sanderson, you may remember if you have a patio or a nice view it will cost you £600 more every year, well both of them have travelled extensively at our expense to visit summits around the world gathering information on how to tax us more, the pair from the Valuation Office Agency (VOA), the organisation which values properties for the purpose of council tax, clocked up the five-figure bill attending conferences in Europe, Australasia, North America and Africa in order to swap tips with foreign counterparts on Big Brother-style databases and 'spy-in-the-sky' satellite surveillance systems,

the pair frequently flew business-class, stayed in luxury hotels and were treated to a round of gala dinners, leaving British taxpayers to shoulder all the costs not met by conference organisers, during the last financial year, the VOA spent £5.4million on travel and subsistence, up £500,000 from two years ago,

director of Data Strategy Paul Sanderson, who earns £90,000 a year and has a pension pot worth £828,000, and Professor David Tretton, VOA Rating Director, who earns a similar sum, have been identified as making the most trips, but with those salaries and pension I guess a extra £600 a year will not be a problem!