Stay-at-home subsidy

sir – My wife has her own small business that she has worked tirelessly, to the point of exhaustion, to keep afloat over the last two years.

The taxes she pays, and those of millions of small businesses like hers, go towards the salaries of the civil servants who now think it is acceptable to carry on working from home having used Covid as an excuse for the last two years. My wife could not do that. Martin Baker

Tadworth, Surrey

sir – Now that working from home is becoming the norm for some sections of the working population, I hope local councils will start to charge these working households business rates.

Many self-employed people use their homes as business premises, working from home, and already have to pay extra rates.

Michael Walford

Aldeburgh, Suffolk