Tax burden must be shared

Sir, - Some decades ago I was employed by the tax office.

At that time, the revenue operated on the entirely fair principle that the more money made, the more tax was paid.

Sadly, this principle has been completely turned on its head in recent years.

Nowadays the high rollers among us, via skilled accountants and financial advisors, can utilise a multitude of loopholes in the system, to avoid paying large chunks of tax, and, in some cases, pay no tax at all.

I do not blame the individuals for taking advantage of this flawed system.

I believe the guilt lies with the series of Westminster governments, of all political hues, who throughout the years have allowed the explosion of taxloop holes to go unchecked and unchallenged.

If someone, or some large company, makes money in this country, it is in this country they should pay their tax.

If they are making a lot of money in this country, they should pay a lot of tax, not the miniscule amounts that we have seen reported.

It is obscene that in a society, where tens of thousands of pounds are squandered on the vanity of personalised number plates for cars, queues are forming at more and more foodbanks, but it is even more obscene for the mega-rich in the United Kingdom to escape their legitimate burden of income tax. Joseph G Miller. 44 Gardeners Street, Dunfermline.