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Editorial misjudgment

05 March 2013
Issue: 4393 / Categories: Forum & Feedback

I refer to your recent front cover depicting the Rt Hon Margaret Hodge as “Tax prat of the year”.

I feel obliged to say I think that an appalling editorial misjudgment. Margaret Hodge is an elected MP doing a job as chair of the Public Accounts Committee, which most members of the public would rightly regard as important.,

I refer to your recent front cover depicting the Rt Hon Margaret Hodge as “Tax prat of the year”.

I feel obliged to say I think that an appalling editorial misjudgment. Margaret Hodge is an elected MP doing a job as chair of the Public Accounts Committee, which most members of the public would rightly regard as important.,

Equally most would consider her pursuit of what she regards as tax leakage to be entirely justified, even praiseworthy. The fact that some members of the tax profession see her attempts as misinformed in no way justifies your personal abuse for her performance of this important rule.

Your cover, I am afraid, brings disrepute to all of us.

Jolyon Maugham

Issue: 4393 / Categories: Forum & Feedback
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