This is a serious question.
My experience over the past 10 years indicates that they are prepared to be dishonest to achieve their aims.
40 years ago some Police Forces were found fitting people up. Officers justified it to themselves on the basis that they were dealing with known criminals (not innocent people). They just didn't have the evidence to nail them, so they falsified and concocted stuff.
Is this the mindset in parts of HMRC? They are dealing with tax cheats, so the ends justify the means? It's ok to be dishonest because it's in pursuit of the greater good?
I get the impression that HMRC treat this as a game, where winning is all that matters even if that means using every dirty trick in the book.
Perhaps the public would support them being dirty cops to catch the bad people.
Or maybe I'm just paranoid.
My experience over the past 10 years indicates that they are prepared to be dishonest to achieve their aims.
40 years ago some Police Forces were found fitting people up. Officers justified it to themselves on the basis that they were dealing with known criminals (not innocent people). They just didn't have the evidence to nail them, so they falsified and concocted stuff.
Is this the mindset in parts of HMRC? They are dealing with tax cheats, so the ends justify the means? It's ok to be dishonest because it's in pursuit of the greater good?
I get the impression that HMRC treat this as a game, where winning is all that matters even if that means using every dirty trick in the book.
Perhaps the public would support them being dirty cops to catch the bad people.
Or maybe I'm just paranoid.
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