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Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves's new tax tsar previously called pensioners 'codgers' who had it 'ridiculously good'.
Sir Edward Troup, a former Tory Treasury special adviser, also said it was 'ridiculous' that pensioners received free TV licences and argued for them to be taxed more.
His comments emerged after Labour appointed him to its new expert panel on tackling tax avoidance earlier this month.
Appearing at a Resolution Foundation roundtable in 2019, Sir Edward called for increases to income tax, National Insurance contributions, VAT and corporation tax.
Advising politicians to raise taxes by stealth, the former special adviser to then Tory
