Dave Hartnett

[BrilloPad]

There was stuff in the BN66 thread about this.

[BigTime]

Who is he/she?

Lord Oakeshott (on BBC news now): "Legend in his own lunchtime"

[BigTime]

And another one: "Staff in HMRC are lions led by donkeys"

[MarillionFan]

There was stuff in the BN66 thread about this.

Sorry I don't read that thread as I never needlessly attempted to defraud HMRC and so subsequently don't need to worry about being bent over the kitchen table by Hector and given a retrospective rogering.

[geoff from contracta IOM]

He has to cut them tasty deals at HMRC's expense otherwise how else will he get the really tasty contracting gigs on 5K a day as a tax adviser to those company's ?

P.S. He's retiring in the Summer by the way, coincidence i'm sure

[brendan_uk]

Dave Hartnett, the permanent secretary for tax at HM Revenue & Customs, topped a survey of 172 senior civil servants carried out by researchers at City University.

They found that the civil servants were entertained on 3,151 separate occasions between 2007 and 2009, including trips to the tennis at Wimbledon, football matches at Chelsea and Manchester United, opera performances and fashion shows.

Mr Hartnett, who is in charge of the Britain’s tax system, was entertained 107 times, mostly at breakfasts, lunches and dinners, by some of the UK's biggest banks, law firms and accountancy firms, among others.
Companies that entertained him included Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan, Ernst & Young, KPMG, PriceWaterhouse Coopers, and Deloitte.

Whitehall's most wined and dined civil servant is HMRC's Dave Hartnett - Telegraph

would the wining and dining be tax exempt? Hes not a client?

whole thing is complete sham

[Bunk]

He has to cut them tasty deals at HMRC's expense otherwise how else will he get the really tasty contracting gigs on 5K a day as a tax adviser to those company's ?

P.S. He's retiring in the Summer by the way, coincidence i'm sure

I bet IR35 won't apply to him either

[Peoplesoft bloke]

And another one: "Staff in HMRC are lions led by donkeys"

Surely "donkeys led by donkeys?"

[AtW]

He'll probably get knighted for his services to the public...