Return on Investment
As all good business will do, an RoI should go along with any strategic project. So has an FoI been raised asking:
"Between 2002 and 2008 how much has HMRC / HMT spent on implementing tax avoidance and evasion practices within their departments compared to the actual realised monies recovered via this practice? Please supply a year on year breakdown to demonstrate the Return on Investment of this."
Can't see how they could claim it breaks the FoI expenditure rules or "information not held" as I cannot imagine they don't keep track of their RoI on such a majore piece of work...
I cannot see how HMRC can refer to "protecting the Exchequer" or how much cost there is to the Exchequer if they didn't know themselves how much they are costing it. Folly, surely.
Would be nice to ask this question at the next round of Court chit chat though. Imagine the scene:
Them: The cost to the Exchequer of this is estimated at 200M quid
Us: How much do you cost the Exchequer to go after avoidance?
Them: We don't know
Us: We estimate your cost to the Exchequer is 400M quid (pro quo)
As all good business will do, an RoI should go along with any strategic project. So has an FoI been raised asking:
"Between 2002 and 2008 how much has HMRC / HMT spent on implementing tax avoidance and evasion practices within their departments compared to the actual realised monies recovered via this practice? Please supply a year on year breakdown to demonstrate the Return on Investment of this."
Can't see how they could claim it breaks the FoI expenditure rules or "information not held" as I cannot imagine they don't keep track of their RoI on such a majore piece of work...
I cannot see how HMRC can refer to "protecting the Exchequer" or how much cost there is to the Exchequer if they didn't know themselves how much they are costing it. Folly, surely.
Would be nice to ask this question at the next round of Court chit chat though. Imagine the scene:
Them: The cost to the Exchequer of this is estimated at 200M quid
Us: How much do you cost the Exchequer to go after avoidance?
Them: We don't know
Us: We estimate your cost to the Exchequer is 400M quid (pro quo)
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