Tax cuts? Let the pensioners have it

28/11/2011

Dear Editor

 

 

 

You wrote in your editorial for the October 2011 edition of Mature Times that “we all know that cuts are needed if the country is to climb out of this economic pit.”

 

 

Ruth Wood echoed this view in the letters page: “I know we all have to take

our share of the cuts.” It is worth noting that tax evaded in the UK could be as high as £69.9bn a year, according to research conducted by Richard Murphy on behalf of The Tax Justice Network.

 

 

However, the government would rather the tax cheats have this money than the pensioners of this country have this money. We don’t have to accept cuts: we could collect due tax instead.

 

 

 

Yours Sincerely

 

 

 

Neil Laurenson

Worcester