Letter: Save the arts

Tuesday 10 February 1998 00:02 GMT

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Save the arts

"The Independent Save the Arts": now there's a headline (9 February) to gladden the morning! After working for 14 years in the US, I am well aware of the advantages of a fiscal system which offers tax relief as an incentive to charitable contributions.

In encouraging Gordon Brown to press for similar concessions in this country, I hope we can also remind him of the anomaly over the recovery of VAT, which encourages museums to charge for admission. In spite of Treasury opposition, he must not give up on a just cause, and those of us who support it.

DUNCAN ROBINSON

Director, Fitzwilliam Museum

Cambridge

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