Letter: Charity and tax

Sir: You are quite right to identify tax relief for charities as a flawed concept but quite wrong in your solution to the problem. The way forward is not to discriminate between good charities and bad charities but to deny tax relief to them all. Tax relief for charities is just another way for the rich to transfer the burden of taxation to the poor. The less tax they pay the more we have to pay.

ROGER CHAPMAN

Keighley, West Yorkshire