We are told that from next year we must pay our VAT online.

I successfully registered myself recently but ‘the system’ rejected my attempt to pay online.

So, I sent a cheque!

We are told cheques will be phased out.

Many of my clients are elderly and do not have access to the internet (probably just as well in some cases). Back to money under the bed?

Granted, as an articled slave I did photocopying in a bath sort of thing and we hung the smelly results on a washing line in the cash office.

And I am not a technical whizz, but why make it difficult?

Is this a sneaky way of making people redundant or ‘downsizing’?

Lindsay J Keith, solicitor, Hurstpierpoint, West Sussex