TALKING about the realities of taxation (ViewPoints, April 16) John Clapton omitted to say that the poor men, in his view of taxation, work for the richest who pay such low wages to workers so that they need benefits from the state.
The answer is for businesses to pay as much as they can afford to their workers thus ensuring that the richest in society would then not be required to pay such high levels of tax and that the lowest paid in society would have sufficient to pay their own taxes.
S NICHOLSON (Mr) Campbell Road Oxford
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