Tax big business

ComPaniES such as Starbucks say they pay the amount of tax that is demanded of them.

So whose fault is it that so little tax is paid on such large profits when ordinary people have to pay their fair share of income tax?

it’s time the rules for big businesses were tightened so the Treasury can increase its tax revenues. This would mean more money for the nHS, schools and care for the elderly.

RONALD BALL, Farnborough, Hants. HmrC does not do ‘sweetheart deals’ with multinationals (mail). Everyone has to pay what they owe under the law.

Every large business is manmarked by a senior tax specialist, who makes sure that they pay everything they owe.

last year, HmrC secured more than £9 billion in additional tax revenue from these businesses. This is money that would otherwise have gone unpaid. JIM HARRA, Tax Assurance

Commissioner, HMRC.