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"Small minority"!
Since when was 'only' having 2 million people needing to use the walk in centres a justification for closing them. That's 2 million people who need them and will be deprived of face to face help.
HMRC's continuing policy
This is part of HMRC's continuing policy of withdrawing direct contact between the taxpayer and the civil servant. Who is rapidly transforming into something not very civil, and certainly not the citizen /subject's servant.
HMRC seem fixed on following the same track as the clearing banks. No doubt many of us are aware of mow much this policy "Improved" customer relationship with the banks.
Do you want it good or do you want it cheap
HMRC staff and budgets have been slashed but compliance targets have been increased so they have to cut customer services and redeploy what resource is left into compliance
compliance
it seems to me that if approx 2 million taxpayers visited, it is a reasonable assumption that the compliance benefits of those visits might well exceed the overall benefit of stuffing part of the "Saving" into specific compliance staff.
Not least because those visitors have uncles, aunties, brothers, sisters and friends who will get the message that HMRC may be spoken with .
Per my experience the reverse is often true, reports of a bad (From the taxpayer's point of view) experience with HMRC spreads speedily round the town similar to the smell from a mal-functioning sewage farm.
Actually, I think that is an excellent comparison. For the good of our society we need well maintained and managed sewage farms, but we do not very often think about it.
Unfortunately if even a small matter goes wrong, then even twelve miles away one will get the "message".
Uncivil Service Servants
Well it is like the welfare system now. Lets humiliate & degrade everybody so they will work long hours on minimum pay in [***] jobs if available or in some cases no jobs at all & if you don't keep applying for jobs unsuitable for or are late for appoinments cut off all your benefit so they can live on street , food banksor alternatively commit suicide well one less for the Tory/Liberal Toffs to take care off.
Yes what a civilised & fair society we live in