Tax return costs should be a tax credit

Even the Chancellor of the Exchequer has to call in professional help to complete his tax return. He can thank his mobile-phone-throwing, laser-printer-chucking neighbour for spending a decade developing the most complicated and opaque tax system in the history of mankind. If he needs help, fair enough! But if this guidance is supplied at taxpayer's expense, then the privilege should be extended to the rest of us.

It's time to extend the "rules" to the rest of us.