As well as HMRC ensuring that large, wealthy corporations pay their full taxes, small people like me also need changes in the way we are approached by the Revenue (Labour condemns HMRC in call for big tax reforms, 9 September). I earn very little, but every year, when I make my tax return, under threat of a fine I have to estimate what I think I will earn in the next tax year and pay tax on that guess. It is outrageous that low earners should be taxed on money they have not yet earned. Every year I have to do this and every year I am paid a rebate for the previous year. If I don’t do it I’m chased up and warned of a penalty if I don’t conform. HMRC should spend its time, energy and threats on those actively avoiding tax, not on honest small fry like me.
Sara Neill
Tunbridge Wells, Kent
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