IN REPLY to Don Reeve (Feb 4) the European Union is a tax and customs union.
Britain cannot claim a realistic rate of corporation tax from the multi-national businesses because of our EU membership.
The main aim of the EU is to harmonise laws within the member states. Directive 2011/96/EU is just one example of hundreds of EU Directives on the subject of corporation tax and by using Google it is possible to locate all these EU Directives.
It is only by leaving the EU that Britain would regain the power to compel these multi-nationals to pay a fair share of their corporation tax into the British treasury.
STEVE HALDEN
Beaufort Green, Swindon