HEAR ALL SIDES: Letters to the Editor
THE “paradise papers” show that laws created by the rich are there to help the rich avoid paying tax.
Look no farther than the House of Lords which costs £7m a year and not a penny in tax paid. Some of these lords are already millionaires and pick up a £300-a-day allowance with no tax to pay because it goes down as expenses.
When I was working, if you got 20 quid Xmas box you paid a fiver tax so why can’t the £7m lords be taxed with the £1.4m raised going to the NHS?
Dave Bowes, West Auckland
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