Craig Phillips and UK Treasury Minister Melanie Johnson poured cold baked beans over the bespectacled suit-wearing taxman in a bid to popularise the Payroll Giving campaign - a government tax relief scheme that boosts charitable donations by encouraging people to donate through their work payrolls. A £7.80 donation given via a payroll will be increased to £11 by the government, which includes the additional 10 per cent government tax relief announced by the Chancellor Gordon Brown in the March budget. Phillips is a friend indeed
Craig, from Seaforth, Merseyside, donated his £70,000 prize money from Channel 4`s Big Brother show to help his friend Joanne Harris, who suffers from Downs Syndrome and needs a heart and lung transplant.