My life as a tax-paying employed person began in middle school, when, for three whole days, I worked in a baking factory.

We spend some time each year in the United States, visiting friends and family—going to our grandson's school to be his "show-and-tell, " and tending to tax returns and medical checkups.

She has also vowed to make the cost of school uniforms tax deductible, saying that they give pupils "a sense of discipline".