Waste of Money

Waste of Money

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Last week two Inspectors from Newcastle visited my firm's offices in Surrey. Their two day trip cost at least £200 per night in hotel bills and they no doubt claimed 45p per mile for the 300 odd miles each way. By my reckoning that review has cost the Revenue upwards of £600.

At the beginning of September I am expecting an Inspector from Liverpool, and one from Wales. they may not have to stay long, but the mileage is again going to be hefty.

We have a tax office, with the appropriate specialists for the reviews, within a 5 minute walk of the office.

Does anyone else find this complete waste of taxpayers money on sending tax inspectors half way round the country hugely irritating?
Paula Sparrow

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By User deleted
10th Aug 2006 10:46

Reorganisation, reorganisation
Not simply for ourselves as advisers and for our clients, but as taxpayers we should find this sort of thing hugely irritating and disgraceful. At present, the HMRC top dogs seem to spend their working week in dreaming up new departments, management teams, job descriptions, etc,etc.I have spoken off the record to some Inspectors who freely admit to being bewildered by the constant changes and have little idea what their exact function is now. Your Newcastle visitation may have something to do with the "team" or "unit" concept in that a number of Inspectors (of differing degrees of experience and aptitude) have been formed into "Large Business" and "Small Business" units and further sub-divided into teams dealing with a particular sector of the economy. The latter, I know, has been in existence for some time and have experienced an official hundreds of miles away becoming involved in an argument over, say, particular travelling expenses. This could easily have been dealt with by a locally-based Inspector. We are told HMRC read this forum: come on, then, why cannot one of you respond-even anonymously?

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