Letters: Unfair taxes and the thin yellow line

Polly Toynbee (This pleb jibe exposes the Tories' Flashman thinking, 25 September) repeats the Institute for Fiscal Studies' assertion that the bottom third earn too little to pay tax. Actually, so far as households go – and, despite upper middle class feminism's gift to the well off of separate tax assessments for couples, it is households which matter in relation to income distribution – the bottom third pay a rather higher percentage of their income in tax than the top third. Th...