HMRC does not have the resources to deal with this. The department has been subjected to corporate anorexia on the assumption that everything we need to do can be done by computers, and it has no effective wing to deal with large scale evasion, let alone avoidance. Until it is given resources then politicians claining that they will do anything about this is mre wind.
Why on earth should any customer have confidence in big business ? It doesn't pay its taxes, it fiddles figures both financial and otherwise, it squeals that it can't pay its employees enough to liove on, it needs huge government subsidies to keep on paying large dividends. And so on. It's not an image problem, it's a reality problem.
HMRC has been tossed around by the politicians for more like 20 years now - get more staff, lay off staff, spend to improve enquiry work, then let all those people go...it is hard and unreasonable to put all the blame on the department.
Well, chaps, you've proved his point , haven't you ?
The tax profession is simply in denial (onje might say, like the tobacco industry before it). Times have changed, largely because of the activities of "tax planners", and what was acceptable (like racial abuse) is no longer so. If this is not voluntary it will be complusory. So it goes.
I have to admit to an interest here - I was a branch chairman in the old IRSF, which became part of PCS later. If the PCS is really too political (and it's not just the Daily Mail readers again) then that si the fault of the members themselves, because trade unions are democratic organisations now compelled by the law to obtain majorities for policies which would leave everyday politicians miles adrift.
Well, the idea was to find a way of paying for care in old age - which is acknowledged to be a major problem and which may easily swallow 100% of anyone's estate, not 15% of it. There is then a comment from the Conservatives that this would cost the "average Briton" £46,000 : implying an average estate on death of over £300,000. This is an interesting case in which the figure is presumably the mean (and inflated by huge figures at the highest levels) since the poorest to fall within that figure will presumably be householders in the South East. Or they may just have made it up.
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HMRC does not have the resources to deal with this. The department has been subjected to corporate anorexia on the assumption that everything we need to do can be done by computers, and it has no effective wing to deal with large scale evasion, let alone avoidance. Until it is given resources then politicians claining that they will do anything about this is mre wind.
JDBenjamin - two posts without a single attempt at rational argument, mere abuse. Well done !
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Why on earth should any customer have confidence in big business ? It doesn't pay its taxes, it fiddles figures both financial and otherwise, it squeals that it can't pay its employees enough to liove on, it needs huge government subsidies to keep on paying large dividends. And so on. It's not an image problem, it's a reality problem.
money money money
HMRC has been tossed around by the politicians for more like 20 years now - get more staff, lay off staff, spend to improve enquiry work, then let all those people go...it is hard and unreasonable to put all the blame on the department.
missing the point
Well, chaps, you've proved his point , haven't you ?
The tax profession is simply in denial (onje might say, like the tobacco industry before it). Times have changed, largely because of the activities of "tax planners", and what was acceptable (like racial abuse) is no longer so. If this is not voluntary it will be complusory. So it goes.
new union
I have to admit to an interest here - I was a branch chairman in the old IRSF, which became part of PCS later. If the PCS is really too political (and it's not just the Daily Mail readers again) then that si the fault of the members themselves, because trade unions are democratic organisations now compelled by the law to obtain majorities for policies which would leave everyday politicians miles adrift.
pensions advice ha ha
I should stay away !
The biggest and best yet mis-selling scandal starts here...
And we can rebuild the supermarket trolleys
Which is fine if you have the money.
But "wastrels" ? Most people cannot afford to save and these days cannot afford to buy houses. What about the people who clean your office ?
death and taxes
Well, the idea was to find a way of paying for care in old age - which is acknowledged to be a major problem and which may easily swallow 100% of anyone's estate, not 15% of it. There is then a comment from the Conservatives that this would cost the "average Briton" £46,000 : implying an average estate on death of over £300,000. This is an interesting case in which the figure is presumably the mean (and inflated by huge figures at the highest levels) since the poorest to fall within that figure will presumably be householders in the South East. Or they may just have made it up.