Reform of the tax system is needed to help ‘hard-working families’, writes Mothers At Home Matter’s chair, Anne Fennell. Families are struggling. They face an unprecedented rise in fuel and energy costs in the realm of £2k a year but do not have the means of meeting this. Many of the problems families face arise from a tax system which far from helping them does not even recognise them and whilst it elevates the individual it creates the problems which will see families pushed further into poverty.