HMRC double standards

[gingerjedi]

I was chatting to my mates misses yesterday who works for HMRC, it turns out they are closing the local tax office meaning her job has been transferred 23 miles away.

HMRC have agreed to pay her travel expenses for 5 years totalling £7.5k, I know this is different to the rules we have to abide by but it seems extraordinarily generous don't you think? I guess it's easy to pluck figures out of the air when it's only the tax payer that foots the bill.

[northernladuk]

Why is this extraordinarily generous? My last permie company did this for people up to 100 miles. Another one did 3 years with extensions up to permanetly depending on circumstance.

Seems about par for the course to me.

I would have expected this from any gov agency as sweetners and the like anyway? They hardly likely to give them a year and have themselves all over the news?

[DaveB]

Not that generous at all I dont think.

If she was claiming standard rates of 40p per mile she should get £92 a week for the first 10,000 miles per year and £46 a week after that.

46 mile round trip is 230 a week, which works out to just over 10,000 miles a year allowing for holidays etc ( 47 working weeks ). so she'll effectivly be on full whack for the whole year. This works out at £4,324 for the year give or take a few quid.

£7.5k total for 5 years is a lot less than that. Or did you mean they are paying her £7.5k a year?

At £7.5k a year they are really paying her travel costs plus £3,200 odd as compensation for the inconvieniance. Not that bad really.

[stingman123]

I was chatting to my mates misses yesterday who works for HMRC, it turns out they are closing the local tax office meaning her job has been transferred 23 miles away.

HMRC have agreed to pay her travel expenses for 5 years totalling £7.5k, I know this is different to the rules we have to abide by but it seems extraordinarily generous don't you think? I guess it's easy to pluck figures out of the air when it's only the tax payer that foots the bill.

Permie? if so, the HMRC have to honour their employment contracts as well!

[gingerjedi]

Not that generous at all I dont think.

If she was claiming standard rates of 40p per mile she should get £92 a week for the first 10,000 miles per year and £46 a week after that.

Even with the £92 a week expenses you only get tax relief on that so it's effectively only worth about £21, I was doing the same journey more or less and I was still out of pocket to the tune of £20 a week.

They're paying for her train ticket outright, I'd forgotten how mollycoddled you are in the permy world, it just seems so damn attractive in these times.

[Sockpuppet]

Depends if her redundancy costs and re-hiring and training costs are more than £7.5k.

[gingerjedi]

Depends if her redundancy costs and re-hiring and training costs are more than £7.5k.

She's a civil servent... what do you think?

I know an IT support guy who walked out from the MoD with near £90k for 20 years service, contrast that with the £14k I got for 12 years at a private company.

[Gonzo]

She'll be made redundant next year as HMRC has to slash costs, closing local offices and making all interaction with the government via the internet.

[shaunbhoy]

I was chatting to my mates misses yesterday who works for HMRC, it turns out they are closing the local tax office meaning her job has been transferred 23 miles away.

HMRC have agreed to pay her travel expenses for 5 years totalling £7.5k, I know this is different to the rules we have to abide by but it seems extraordinarily generous don't you think? I guess it's easy to pluck figures out of the air when it's only the tax payer that foots the bill.

Does the £7.5K factor in the costs of the PTSD Counselling that will no doubt ensue as their desk has been moved almost a Marathon's distance away from its current location?

[Sysman]

HMRC have agreed to pay her travel expenses for 5 years totalling £7.5k,

I read that as meaning £7.5K over 5 years - i.e. 2.5K per year, or just over 50 quid a week when you factor in holidays.