Ask and you will might have absolutely no chance receive.

The scene where Oliver asks for ‘more’ springs to mind. A report issued today by BDO Stoy Hayward has called for greater clarity over the tax policies of the main political parties.

In the same week that Alistair Darling has said there should be more openness palmed us off over potential spending cuts BDO has stated that:

should it become inevitable that there will be a need for tax increases, in tandem with spending cuts, due to the ongoing size of the national deficit, now is the time for the main political parties to break the silence over where tax increases might be.

The report itself is called “Time to break the silence?” and shows that hard decisions need to be made about the best way to address the scale of the Government’s £175 billion fiscal deficit.

Surprisingly enough all the political parties are more than aware of this but being run by politicians and not accountants they  seemingly prefer not want to show their hand until only a few weeks before the General Election.

BDO may end up feeling like they were peeing into the wind here but best of luck to them.