Are HMRC deliberately fudging the reply dates?

Are HMRC deliberately fudging the reply dates?

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Has anybody else received a reply from HMRC saying Thank you for your letter dated dd/mm/yyyy, and thought hang on I didn't write a letter on that date?

I have now received two replies where the date of our letter has been quoted as exactly 28 days earlier than the HMRC reply. Call me cynical but I just do not believe those are honest Revenue errors.

If the Revenue are doing that then we may as well all give up.

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By codling
10th Apr 2013 11:36

Fudge

Not seen this personally but would suggest that this is referred to your local working together group asap who will see whether it is a nationwide or local problem and get the practice stopped.

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By Trevor Scott
10th Apr 2013 11:59

Sounds like they are fiddling internal statistics...

....One of many stories I have from people who worked, yes worked, at Longbenton was when people were contracted in (not employed!!!!) to open thousands of files and stamp them to evidence they'd been dealt with. No actual work was performed on the file, no advancement of any issue, just stamped so that HMRC could CLAIM in reports that they'd done X amount of work.

For years now, in many cases, management reports don't even contain claims that can be verified to a stamp in the file.....yet this is the very info used to "manage" the organisation and government. Even if Liz Homer was competent, what chance would she or another have when they are using nonsense to base decisions upon?

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By chatman
10th Apr 2013 13:40

Doesn't surprise me at all.

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