Reply to: Did anyone hear....

[Sysman]

Linky

I think this is the interview that the OP is talking about.
Shocking

And a link off that page 'PAYE is a 1940s' system'

No surprise that Primarolo gets a mention.

[MarillionFan]

Not the word I would use.

Another thing, why do they use the term 'customers'?

Because proles would be considered offensive.

[Doggy Styles]

Another thing, why do they use the term 'customers'?

Nothing pisses me off about HMRC more than that. My hackles have risen just reading your post HAB!

And then you get that c*** Dave Hartnett in charge of HMRC yesterday saying that there is no need for HMRC to apologise for f**king up six million taxpayers' assessments - "because that is normal operation". We're not customers now, are we!

F*** them.

[OwlHoot]

Another thing, why do they use the term 'customers'?

Public sector bureaucrats trying to ape their betters in the private sector, i.e. us.

[HairyArsedBloke]

Linky

I think this is the interview that the OP is talking about.
Shocking

Not the word I would use.

Another thing, why do they use the term 'customers'?

[CheeseSlice]

Linky

I think this is the interview that the OP is talking about.
Shocking

[MarillionFan]

Did anyone hear....

I thought everyone and heard.....

[Zippy]

The tax system has been a crock for decades. I believe this has been a deliberate policy by successive governments.

"It's so complicated even we don't understand it but, fck it, any mistakes are YOUR fault"

Chisellers.

[BoredBloke]

Imagine trying to write the system that handles tax in this country. It must be a bloody nightmare with the bloated tax system Brown left.

[shaunbhoy]

because they counted them and because there were so many they didn't have time to open them

Maybe we could outsource it?

[oracleslave]

I wouldn't be surprised if that would be considered a terrorist act.

Deport him the the US

[SupremeSpod]

Sounds like we could stop paying tax and it would take them years to figure out. Just to help out we should bombard them with pointless junk mail to slow them down even more

I wouldn't be surprised if that would be considered a terrorist act.

[Bunk]

Sounds like we could stop paying tax and it would take them years to figure out. Just to help out we should bombard them with pointless junk mail to slow them down even more

[chef]

yup. a million unopened pieces of mail. how do they know?

because they counted them and because there were so many they didn't have time to open them

[DS23]

....the anonymous HMRC tax officer on Radio 4 this morning?

yup. a million unopened pieces of mail. how do they know?