Government sponsored extortion!

[Mailman]

Or alternatively, just piss and moan on the internet.

Or alternatively just file on line and save yourself £15.

No. Let’s just piss and moan on the internet. That’ll show Tony Blair.

I have sent a letter to HM Customs asking for an explanation as to why such an extortionate fee is payable for merely confirming details they already hold.

I am also in the process of planning a "LEGAL" protest outside Parliament for later this week.

I have petitioned my local MP and am now waiting to see how that goes (hopefully I wont get a restraining order back from the bugger! ).

There, once the Government backs down and changes this fee to £0 I expect all of you sheep, who do nothing more than whinge about those who actually make things happen, to send me £5 each

Mailman

[Rebecca Loos]

who do nothing more than whinge about those who actually make things happen

Speak for yourself buddy - some of us do not whinge about anything tax related, because we do something about it - unlike you docile payer.

Now go and pay for your right to protest legally about how much you have to pay to protest

[planetit]

I have sent a letter to HM Customs ....

I bet they're about that.

Why did you send it to HM Customs? At least complain to the right people.

[BobTheCrate]

I agree with you Mailman - this is so typical of this failing Government and its fat, inefficient departments constantly looking for new ways to fool people into thinking they contribute anything.

I applaud you for complaining mailman and also for making an effort to draw attention to these Gov't parasites.

If it wasn't for the willingness of others to 'try' and fight this rotten Gov't's policies against small business, there wouldn't be the PCG alongside most/all of the other substantive resistance to IR35.

Obviously this fee isn't as malicious as IR35 tries to be but it's the principle.

As Gordon Brown becomes more and more desperate about his ever falling tax receipts; the others who mock you here could do worse than prepare themselves for more stealth taxation by way of superfluous fees.

[Mailman]

who do nothing more than whinge about those who actually make things happen

Speak for yourself buddy - some of us do not whinge about anything tax related, because we do something about it - unlike you docile payer.

Now go and pay for your right to protest legally about how much you have to pay to protest

Excuse me but I havent HAD to pay a penny in taxes Ill have you know!

This issue is squarly about a fee being charged for the hell of it and what exactly Im paying for (I bet Im paying to support someones coffee habit down whitehall!)

Mailman

[Rebecca Loos]

good for you mate!
The best path in life is the path of least taxation