Tories’ half-baked tax plans are sure to backfire

sir – Here we go again. A Chancellor of limited experience – Sajid Javid – comes along with half-baked tax plans, which will undoubtedly have a dramatic effect on the tax and wealth of their new targets (Business, February 10).

I well remember similar attacks by Labour’s Gordon Brown, who by interfering with tax allowances caused company pension schemes to collapse and caused me to dispose of more than half of a family company in order to meet a £2 million pension deficit. Kel Prince

Rothley, Leicestershire

sir – The latest proposals for changes in taxation, if implemented, may well limit Boris Johnson to only one term as prime minister. Simon Mcilroy

Croydon, Surrey sir – Should this Government be misguided enough to implement a mansion tax, I will be offsetting it with a multiplier against my contributions to the Conservative Party. David Stanley

Richmond, Surrey

sir – In the Seventies I paid £38,000 out of my taxed income for my house, which is now worth about £1 million. I also pay council tax each year, now out of my pension. When I die my estate will be assessed and I will pay inheritance tax.

Enough is enough. Just because Mr Johnson has an 80-seat majority does not mean he can tax people – especially those who have just put him in power – until the pips squeak. Duncan Rayner

Sunningdale, Berkshire