The Parliamentary Accounts Committee has issued a report saying it is not convinced by HMRC's logic that sacking staff pays. It has said that if it had more staff it would, in the PAC's opinion, collect more tax.
HMRC's response has been quick in coming. They've announced another 1,638 job losses at the following locations:
This is tax madness.
It's economic madness.
It's madness when you realise that these people are paying for the services we're all going to lose in the NHS, schools, social services and in pension and other payments as a result of the fact that they won't be collecting the tax due to meet those needs.
That's why I'm at the PCS conference this afternoon. This is a policy that has to be changed - in the interests of all honest people in this country.
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There’s one person at HMRC who should be losing their job — the incomparably incompetent Lin Homer. And given her past history of disservice in public offices, serial ineptitude and and association with criminality, she should be moving from service for Her Majesty to incarceration on behalf of Her Majesty.
This goes to show that the tories(and new labour before them) are determined to continue with cuts on the basis of ideology despite all the evidence to the contrary.
It’s not madness if they’re doing it deliberately to disable the rest of us. This austerity doesn’t touch the financial elites, does it? I note that banks and the big hedge funds have for some time been buying up farmlands. Recently a group of banks (including Barclays) has been buying up munitions companies like Remington. If the social collapse many feel is imminent actually happens, they’ll have somewhere self-sustainable to go to and the means to defend it too. Just to make sure of it, they’re depriving the rest of us of what amounts to life-support. Coincidence? Increasingly it doesn’t look that way.