SIR – The recent response of David Cameron to the matter of Gary Barlow’s tax ‘activities’ shows the difference in the PM’s attitude towards tax avoidance compared to benefit fraud.

In the first case it is criticised per se while at the same time, the enormously rich pop singer is (metaphorically speaking) given a slap on the wrist and told not to do it again (with his ‘honour’ literally intact!).

Benefit fraud, however, which in total, amounts to a fraction of the losses of tax evasion/avoidance to the country’s revenue, is always pursued vigorously and without mercy, no matter the circumstances.

Tax avoidance, tax evasion and benefit fraud are all wrong and should be condemned and dealt with by the authorities.

However, having the wherewithal to employ people to find ever more complex ways of avoiding their fair share of tax by already super-rich people, to me, seems much more morally dubious.

And, of course the amount lost to the Exchequer certainly could go a long way to massively reducing this country’s debts and ending austerity (without course to reducing public expenditure).

David Hornsby, West View Avenue, Wrose