We've taken this argument to MPs and they say one of the following:
We really don't believe that HMRC would lie to us.
We cannot challenge economic policy by saying HMRC is out of control.
So long as the money rolls in, we cannot complain.
HMRC are taking proper action against tax avoiders.
I'll be honest, after three years of that and getting nowhere we became convinced that we needed to spend our energy on our clients and we switched focus to litigation.
Even so, instances like this remind me of just how far an organisation that I was proud to have worked for, has fallen.
It seems that whoever is in charge of HMRC and their closest policy makers have left their morals and humanity behind them in an effort to ... what?
Satisfy some political policy or instruction? No. The MPs tell us that HMRC has to be fair and take reasonable care and are "compassionate".
Nope. Either the MPs are lying or HMRC is not understanding that they cannot "win" regardless of the cost. That is not how a civilised society wants its tax collectors to behave.
So are they unaccountable because they choose to be?
We really don't believe that HMRC would lie to us.
We cannot challenge economic policy by saying HMRC is out of control.
So long as the money rolls in, we cannot complain.
HMRC are taking proper action against tax avoiders.
I'll be honest, after three years of that and getting nowhere we became convinced that we needed to spend our energy on our clients and we switched focus to litigation.
Even so, instances like this remind me of just how far an organisation that I was proud to have worked for, has fallen.
It seems that whoever is in charge of HMRC and their closest policy makers have left their morals and humanity behind them in an effort to ... what?
Satisfy some political policy or instruction? No. The MPs tell us that HMRC has to be fair and take reasonable care and are "compassionate".
Nope. Either the MPs are lying or HMRC is not understanding that they cannot "win" regardless of the cost. That is not how a civilised society wants its tax collectors to behave.
So are they unaccountable because they choose to be?
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