Stop UK pensioners paying income tax on their state pension

Most UK pensioners have worked for decades and most have paid their taxes to the Government of the day. Why in our latter years do we have to pay these taxes? We don’t pay National Insurance unless we continue to work.

We are penalised by the Government and HMRC by paying income tax on our state pension because we have either work place or private pension schemes to support us in later life. I would ask the Government to either scrap the amount we pay.