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Its a question of confidence
A wide range of skills are required for most jobs but if you do not have the technical knowledge of the end product or services that is on offer how can you make strategic decisions at a senior level without knowing how that this effects all the links lower down in the supply chain and the effects on stakeholders.
It is a big mistake to assume that the higher the position someone has the greater their range of skills. MPs, senior executives and civil servants and those who associate with them are presumed to have extensive skill sets. The reality is quite different. History is littered with examples of their failings. Yet notwithstanding this reality the government will continue to make mistakes by making such appointments.
If the new chairman of the HMRC cannot understand the complexities of (say) tax structured finance where the amounts at stake may run into billions of pounds , Lloyds Names, non residents and investigations (incidentally all areas in which I have had extensive experience) I have no confidence in the HMRC to operate a tax system in a responsible and reasonable way. The aggression shown towards taxpayers in recent years and the incompetent management will continue for the indefinite future.
Should a Conservative Government be elected I am doubtful that there would any improvement in the efficiency of the HMRC.
Interesting comment,
but, does the fact that you might know a lot about tax mean that you are capable of heading up a department the size of HMRC? I reckon that requires an entirely different set of skills.
The road to disaster.
What on earth is the reasoning behind the appointment of a non tax person as Chairman of the HMRC. No firm of accountants would appoint a tax partner, manager or senior without some experience of tax.
No wonder that the UK is in a mess, mismanged by a leaderless and negligent government. Once again the UK has become the sick man of Europe and the laughing stock of the world. Such irresponsible decisions are just one example of how the ruling classes live in world so unreal from the rest of us who are faced to suffer the consequences of their downright crass decisions