BN66 - the road to Judicial Review

[Tax_shouldnt_be_taxing]

Timms the communicator

I see in todays Guardian that Timms is moving to Communications. Looks like a demotion to me. I wonder if he will do as good a job with the telephones as he did with BN66 and the JCHR.

Are you sure? Are we talking about the same Mr Timms, who allegedly doesn't deem it fit to answer questions from the JCHR or anybody else who challenges the legality of BN66?

Definition of communication:
1.
a. The exchange of thoughts, messages, or information, as by speech, signals, writing, or behavior.
b. Interpersonal rapport.

Don't know about you, but a labotomised mute could do better (allegedly of course)!

[PlaneSailing]

Laugh, I nearly did.

HMRC have changed their draft charter. How many of these do you think
have been followed recently?

'Your Rights’ - This summarises the nine expectations you can have of HMRC. That is to:

1 Respect you
2 Help and support you to get things right
3 Treat you as honest
4 Treat you even-handedly
5 Be professional and act with integrity
6 Tackle people who deliberately break the rules and challenge those who bend the rules
7 Protect your information and respect your privacy
8 Accept that someone else can represent you
9 Do all we can to keep the cost of dealing with us as low as possible


A small plus is that point 6 has changed from this...

6 .. relentlessly pursue people who ‘bend’ the rules

[DonkeyRhubarb]

HMRC have changed their draft charter. How many of these do you think
have been followed recently?

'Your Rights’ - This summarises the nine expectations you can have of HMRC. That is to:

1 Respect you
2 Help and support you to get things right
3 Treat you as honest
4 Treat you even-handedly
5 Be professional and act with integrity
6 Tackle people who deliberately break the rules and challenge those who bend the rules
7 Protect your information and respect your privacy
8 Accept that someone else can represent you
9 Do all we can to keep the cost of dealing with us as low as possible


A small plus is that point 6 has changed from this...

6 .. relentlessly pursue people who ‘bend’ the rules

Ah, but you notice this only goes up to 9. There is one missing.

10 Interpret the above as we see fit.

[macdat]

Ah, but you notice this only goes up to 9. There is one missing.

10 Interpret the above as we see fit.

You forgot ...

11 : Use our HMRC standard issue time machine to change rules and apply them to whenever the hell we like.

[swede]

Lol

Ah, but you notice this only goes up to 9. There is one missing.

10 Interpret the above as we see fit.

[Tax_shouldnt_be_taxing]

Consumer relations

I also like the repeated use of "customer" when referring to the populace. I wonder if if they have one of those customer service banners on their office walls saying "Customer is King" or "Customer is always right"? Probably not. More likely they have one saying "Customer is to be crucified".

[PlaneSailing]

Ovum

Are you sure? Are we talking about the same Mr Timms, who allegedly doesn't deem it fit to answer questions from the JCHR or anybody else who challenges the legality of BN66?

Definition of communication:
1.
a. The exchange of thoughts, messages, or information, as by speech, signals, writing, or behavior.
b. Interpersonal rapport.

Don't know about you, but a labotomised mute could do better (allegedly of course)!

More on Lurch's move here:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology...-britain-brief

Now what odds would you give that the delayed consultation will
be farmed out to a consultancy?

I wonder if Ovum might be involved....

[smalldog]

ooo I reckon there could be plenty of opportunity for Ovum to do some consultancy, somehow, be very interesting to see if they get involved...We could have a field day with that little nugget...

So will that £6 digital tax be retrospective dya reckon!

[DonkeyRhubarb]

Timms

Looks like we are stuck with him. He is taking on the Comms post as a 2nd job.

[PlaneSailing]

Looks like we are stuck with him. He is taking on the Comms post as a 2nd job.

Well it's not like he was busying writing responses to questions.