The Guardian view on the tax system: losing trust, missing out on billions | Editorial

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : We won't hold our breath for such accountability from Mr Sunak, the private schoolboy who takes private jets to Leeds, enjoys private healthcare while dealing with the NHS, and who held a green card while a cabinet minister.
51% : It misses £42bn a year in unpaid taxes from businesses and individuals, said MPs on the public accounts committee this month, which is more than all local authorities in England will spend on social care, culture, environment and planning this year.
45% : However unsatisfactory the idea that what GP services, schools, bin collections you get depend on where you live, 'postcode lottery' is now an everyday term - but taxation and representation should never be arbitrary.
35% : Even as millions are sweating over self-assessment forms ahead of this month's deadline, HMRC dishes up big dollops of bad news Leona Helmsley's greatest wrongdoing was ultimately not her vast tax fraud but to be overheard by her housekeeper declaring: "Only the little people pay taxes."

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