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PCS general secretary Mark Serwotka - In the 2000 election campaign, Serwotka pledged that he would only accept an average member's wage. However, in 2009 he received £86,244 in salary as well as £25,441 in pensions contributions and a £1,076 additional housing cost allowance
see - https://www.accountingweb.co.uk/anyanswers/mass-public-sector-strikes/506444
So, less than on third voted
and just over half of them in favour - one in six overall then. Hardly an endorsement for strike action is it?
PCS Strike Action
Many in the profession have had pay freeze for a number of years and certainly don't benefit from the civil service pension scheme. Why should we support action that is seeking to protect better pensions than we will receive, and that we are paying for?
I don't recall any civil service union offering support for the hardships we are having to endure in the real world.
Accountants should support HMRC staff when they strike later thi
Whoever writes these lines for the PCS should be writing comedy scripts for the BBC because that is the best joke I've heard in years.
I wonder if they could tell us exactly when HMRC staff ever "supported" accountants? I must have been away that day because I missed it.
They are greedy money grabbing civil sevants who seem to think that they should be treated as some kind of "special case" and made immune from the realities facing everyone else.
Index-Linked
Am I correct in my thought that their pensions are index-linked? If so, that's already far better than many of us can achieve.
I also happen to think that Equitable pensioners should get their compensation before any of this lot. But then the problem arises of what I am going to spend the £250 on !!!
Bitter, moi ???
Minimum Wage Retirement
I've just had my Private Pension summary through. It's projected value in real terms is pitiful, below what it would be possible to live on. 10 years ago it's projected value was low not pitiful.
When I know that this pitiful amount will be taxed to support civil service pensions; well......
taking the Michael
They should recieve the same sympathy as struggling businessmen would recieve from them, after all the civil service mismanaged the economy they decided to take charge of.
Sick days - get real - even when I am sick I cannot have a day off, and HMRC would not view this as an excuse for a late return.
Unfortunately the honest hard workers are fed up with paying for these ineffectual state employees, professional tax credit and benefit claimants and tax evaders. All of whom seem to be on a pretty good screw.
I doubt if a few days will make any noticable difference to the delays in responding to correspondence.
Have the days off guys, on us ..........because you can......hope the weather is good for you!
A pragmatic view
I can't imagine that HMRC response speed is going to be particularly high on 30 June, so whether your sympathy lies with the strikers or the non strikers, it probably makes sense to bring forward any routine calls or diarised reminders to the 29th and keep your HMRC contact to a minimum on the 30th -unless of course you like listening to hold music.
I don't think it's stupid to suggest that we should think about our stance. Most of us will have clients and staff who have family members in the public sector .
Today
today has been nice and quiet ! lol
No stupid and snotty phone calls advising me HMRC cannot find stuff submitted electronically when I have confirmation of filing.
Still have to pay for them, but it makes little or no difference.