Letters: Coming clean on tax

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Panama City's financial district (Getty)

With so much legitimate interest in public figures' tax affairs, yet understandable reluctance to divulge actual earnings, there is a very easy way for high profile individuals to demonstrate that they are paying their fair shares of UK tax. I suggest that with cross-party agreement, the government contracts with a firm of accountants to whom, for a modest fee, anyone can submit their tax returns and in return receive a publishable certificate of probity. No actual figures need to be published. It need not cost the taxpayer anything.

Patrick Cosgrove

Shropshire

Corbyn has a chance in 2020

Holly Baxter I love you! At last a journalist who writes about Jeremy Corbyn in a positive way rather than referring to him either patronisingly or with downright hostility.

If Jeremy Corbyn can only mobilise the young to register and vote by offering a change from the old politics - frequently dismissed as “they're all the same” - it is not inconceivable that there might be a Labour majority in 2020.

Patrick Cleary

Devon

Holly Baxter writes (6th April) that “it's hard to know what everybody's problem with Jeremy Corbyn really is”. Perhaps everybody's problem is that Jeremy Corbyn, and the rest of the Labour Party, is just not angry enough?

David Wallis

Cirencester

Hate crime

Thank you, Ian Birrell, for raising awareness of disability hate-crime across Britain in your article: ‘If it's crime against people with disabilities, we don't care’. I was horrified to learn of the soldiers brutally attacking two teenagers because of their disabilities. It is clear we need to do more as a society, to protect disabled people from hate-crime, which is shockingly still part of everyday life.

We at Muscular Dystrophy UK are calling on the police and Crown Prosecution Service to respond to the needs of disabled people and make sure any form of disability hate-crime is treated with severity. Disabled people need to feel safe knowing that society deems any form of hate-crime unacceptable and that the police force and judiciary will act accordingly.

Robert Meadowcroft

Chief Executive

Muscular Dystrophy UK

London