I write in response to your report 'Brown reveals New Tax Breaks For Bosses,' (November 1).

This will no doubt be as welcome as a kick in the teeth to those readers who have, and are, striving against all the odds to make provision for their old age with a pension and savings, only to find that this Government has by stealth deprived them of tax breaks.

Then they have given those same tax breaks to company directors for share options which will no doubt be bought at a large discount.

Surely, this can't be the same Government which before the election was running around like headless chickens, making such a fuss about 'corporate fat cats'.

Jeff Henderson,

Moor Lane,

Haxby,

York.

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