26 APRIL 1986, Page 32

Tax free

Sir: Tax relief for the victims of the Nazis is not, as Mr Mount writes (`A11 capitalists nowadays', 22 March), 'a sentimental gim- mick'. Mr Lawson deserves full praise for ending the scandal of the Treasury profit- ing, however indirectly, from the sufferings of these people by grabbing its share of the compensations paid to them by the Federal Republics of Germany and Austria free of any taxes.

George Clare

Dalham, Suffolk