Should the super-rich be made to pay more tax?

IT IS not a democracy when those with money, power, influence or fame can subvert what should be morally and legally correct. Everyone should pay their fair share of tax. It is also clear that despite the hand-wringing, politicians do not seem willing to engage with this problem. Only little people pay tax. I worked all my life, paid tax without complaint and never tried to evade my obligations, and am now paying tax on my pension. RICHARD STEER, Hartlepool, Co. Durham. WHILE the Paradise Papers have uncovered legal, but unacceptable, behaviour, they prove yet again that business people are a lot better at handling money than politicians.

TONY CLARK, Leicester. WHY criticise the Queen’s tax arrangements? She is also the monarch of the Cayman Islands and is not doing anything illegal. Surely your financial advisers are supposed to increase your assets? V. CRISPIN, Rickmansworth, Herts. NOTHING illegal about tax avoidance — it’s evasion that is against the law — but Sir Max Hastings (Mail) is right that the perception that the super-rich can avoid their dues is corrosive. The simplistic message that the rich are ‘getting away with it’ plays into the class prejudices of a section of society who are also susceptible to the ‘magic wand’ promises of Jeremy Corbyn. He wooed the youth vote with spurious claims about scrapping student debt and remains a real threat to the future of the very people who vote for him.

JULIE SIMPSON, Glasgow.. IF IT’S not illegal to keep money offshore, why the fuss? Sour grapes? GLENNIS EDMONDS, Fleet, Hants.