Re: The Taxman Cometh - Tonight

On 13 Mar, 22:42, Simon <si...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
PeterSaxton wrote:
Now you are making it up. Are you saying that those people were not
serving officers when the programme said they were. This carries even
less weight when you say they would be recognised.

Nobody has said these people had a dispute with the department or felt
there were hard done by. You seem to be making it up.

Now whose being naive, why would anyone risk their job and pension to
make an unpaid appearance on a television program.

Why do you keep making it up? Who said they were unpaid? Why should
they be found out?

If you arbitrarily accuse anybody who tells the true about HMRC as
having an axe to grind it shows that you are not wanting to use logic
in your argument. You need to look at the facts and analyse them
rather than simply make accusations against anybody who says anything
you don't want the public to hear.

I think you are havine serious problems, putting truth and journalist in
the same sentence is an oxymoron. Heaven forbid that they should put up
actors and claim that they are serving officers, journalists have far
too much integrity to do that.

More sarcasm? You seem incapable of sensible analysis.

Staff at the HMRC roadshow admitted that training was not adequate. I
suppose you will dismiss their views as "having an axe to grind"!

Considering the departments requirement to reduce the staff numbers by
another 12000 over the next two years, they would not think twice to
save the severance package and pension payments. If your sacked, its not
just your job you lose

I don't doubt that HMRC want to avoid the large pension payments that
HMRC staff get which are eventually paid by you and me.

Oh bollocks, the 8% of our bloody salary pays for our pensions, we earn
our pittance of a bloody salary, getting stitched up year on year with
below inflation payrises, ever increasing work loads and having to put
up with accountants and taxpayers who think its ok to personally insult
us at every turn.

Simon you seem real bitter. An accountant at the roadshow was telling
me that a friend of his had been made bankrupt a few years ago and
worked at HMRC in London for £8,500 a year and the staff were
demotivated and didn't care about the work. That's not the way to run
an important organisation.
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