Think about it, if you don’t pay, who does?

3:14pm Tuesday 26th June 2012 in Read

SIR – Seventy per cent of Worcester News readers responding to your online poll would only pay one per cent tax if they could get away with it.

Can we assume that these readers would prefer to make their own arrangements for health and social care, education, pensions and benefits for themselves and their families through private insurance and savings?

Or is it expected that the 30 per cent who see paying tax as a social responsibility should pay for the services used by the 70 per cent who don’t?

DEREK FEARNSIDE
Worcester

Comments(1)

CJH says...
5:54pm Tue 26 Jun 12

I bought a a multipack bag of crisps last week. Instead of six packets there were seven. Should I have taken the extra one back to the shop? Nope - their fault for not being able to count. My point being that if there are mistakes or loopholes in a system...well, there shouldn't be, should there? Not in a country's tax system, which employs thousands of people to make sure it works properly! Why have HMRC's auditors not picked this up? Why are we paying them big bucks when something this enormous has been completely overlooked? The issue should be more concerned with how it has happened, rather than castigate those who legally took advantage of it.

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