Sir, – Can someone explain why it is the State’s policy to tax my wife for having an Irish holiday home, with all attendant spending already subject to VAT, and yet we are excluded from the benefits of being 80 years of age, in the matter of a television licence, for which we have to pay in full?
Similarly, we get no bus pass or other age-related benefit because we pay no tax. Casuistic humbug. – Yours, etc,