Reply to: HM Revenue and Customs wants power to break speed limits

[BrilloPad]

I ended up in the square meal cafe in Birchington today - so read their copy of the sun. They had this story as an exclusive!

[Old Hack]

Wasn't Nigel Mansell a Special Constable? He's probably the sort of person HMRC want in their high speed chases of IR35 avoiding contractor scum.

On the Isle of Man too...

[VectraMan]

Wasn't Nigel Mansell a Special Constable? He's probably the sort of person HMRC want in their high speed chases of IR35 avoiding contractor scum.

[SupremeSpod]

Which is odd as special constables have no more powers than members of the public.

I think you're getting confused with PCSOs

[BrilloPad]

HMRC officers were sworn in as special constables to enable them to raid offices of a certain accountancy practice on the Isle of Man.

Which is odd as special constables have no more powers than members of the public.

[SupremeSpod]

It's simple. By organised crime they mean any bunch of contractors, or anyone who represents contractors, who wishes to minimise their tax through avoidance, like having a limited company instead of being properly employed. Dawn raids at PCG towers...

HMRC officers were sworn in as special constables to enable them to raid offices of a certain accountancy practice on the Isle of Man.

It's rather amusing (in a twisted way) that HMRC and Government are spending so much effort in blurring the lines between what's legal, moral, evasion, avoidance etc.

Personally I think HMRC is going to mutate into a "Policing" unit.

[Old Hack]

Time to relocate to Bridgwater where its safer.

With teh floods we have, best bring a boat. Anyway, they're building Hinkley point C now, so best keep away....

[BrilloPad]

Dawn raids at PCG towers...

Time to relocate to Bridgwater where its safer.

[NotAllThere]

It's simple. By organised crime they mean any bunch of contractors, or anyone who represents contractors, who wishes to minimise their tax through avoidance, like having a limited company instead of being properly employed. Dawn raids at PCG towers...

[Old Hack]

Door gets kicked down

Nobody expects the inquisition....

Very thin edge of wedge

Having said that, when we're in our house in France, we have had the police around to check we're paying our local taxes....

[SupremeSpod]

Seems like a sensible idea to me as long as its regulated. The only point I would make is that if this is organised crime then where does HMRCs responsibility end and that of the fraud / flying quad start. Why couldn't a police trained driver be seconded to HMRC to follow the crims.

Because that wouldn't satiate the power-mad morons at HMRC. They're out of control and it's going to get worse.

[Sockpuppet]

Seems like a sensible idea to me as long as its regulated. The only point I would make is that if this is organised crime then where does HMRCs responsibility end and that of the fraud / flying quad start. Why couldn't a police trained driver be seconded to HMRC to follow the crims.

[BlasterBates]

So does this means special investigations squads tearing round the streets to query someone's tax return.

[vetran]

Ministers said it was right revise the rules for those whose work "can mean the difference between life and death".

Death & taxes hey?

I suspect this is a smokescreen probably they are actually after the right to do intimate cavity searches using baseball bats which is in the same bill.

[SupremeSpod]

The Inland Revenue gained all sorts of powers via the back door when they teamed up with Customs and Excise. This is going to be the icing on the cake.