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Two-way communication?
Most blogs have comments enabled. Will this be the case here?
If so, it could get feisty!
What Are You Doing to Improve Things We're Unhappy About?
If anyone at HMRC bothers to read the many angry postings on AWEb about HMRC's shortcomings, it should be easy for them to compile a shortlist, some items of which would be quite easy to sort out.
If Jenny doesn't understand that we are tired of being told things as if we are naughty children and our clients are exhausted with being refused refunds of overpaid PAYE from their payrolls then any such blog is a complete waste of her time.
I very much doubt that Jenny can influence the really senior fools that run HMRC. They are probably sitting back, nursing their honours and thinking how wonderful they are.
I would be delighted to be proved wrong.
Definitions
I have just spent nearly two hours reading Sch 15 FA 2003 on SDLT and partnerships as "explained" by HMRC manual, no surprise that answer not contained in HMRC publication. Next step was to try and contact Birmingham Stamp Office, no telephone number published and even though I eventually got to speak to an officer as soon as I mentioned the word partnership he was keen enough to point out that this was a specialist area and he was not trained on the topic and invited me to write in with my query. I was given to understand that HMRC has only a few officers trained on the subject and lord forbid that anyone should interrupt their day and ask them to do what they are being paid to do ie no telephone number published as this would be too simple a solution to the problem. All in all a very frustrating afternoon at the end of which I have discovered a new definition of the word "Oxymoron" --
A HMRC help line.
If Jenny reads this then I hope she will take on board not just my frustration but the frustration of everyone caught up in HMRC`s current merry- go- round that that passes for customer care.
Is this an "interesting and helpful snippet" to be acted on or are we all just wasting our time in participating in yet another HMRC initiative that will serve no purpose what so ever?
WIKIPEDIA -- OXYMORON
WHILST THERE ARE MANY INTERPRETATIONS OF THIS WORD SOME FIGURATIVE OTHERS ABSTRACT THE GENERALLY MOST POPULAR AND COLLEGIALLY ACCEPTED MEANING IS OF A PERSON OF MORONIC DISPOSITION WITH A PARTIALITY TO DRINKING OXO .