I read your front-page article on Joanne Wilkins' stand against unfair council tax increases with interest.

I completely sympathise with and support her stand.

However, it is not only pensioners who begrudge the annual increases - all taxpayers feel the added costs are not reflected by added services.

We are forced to contribute more and more (in my case, an increase of almost 46 per cent in the past three years by Adur District Council) yet there isn't a comparable increase in services.

If anything, local authorities are looking to reduce them.

The only way to halt this extortion is if, en masse, as a fed-up nation, we simply refuse to pay the increases and only accept increases which are in line with inflation.

And if services are cut, we should also refuse to pay any increase at all in that year.

-Tilly Tycehurst, Southwick