EC must clarify its tax proposals

We are frequently genuinely and understandably concerned with the lack of accountability that exists in much of our political and administrative public bodies. 

The annual report of the Office of the Comptroller and Auditor General is testimony to the apparent lack of regard some of those at the top of the public sector and political life have towards taxes paid by hard-pressed taxpayers.

However, the lack of accountability at the heart of the EU puts our little violations into the halfpenny place. Nobody at the top of the EU has a direct democratic mandate of any nature. They were all elected by their peers.