I wrote last week about how inappropriate I thought HMRC's claims with regard to £23.9bn of extra tax collected by it as a result of compliance activities really were.
Because of my concerns I have now submitted the following Freedom of Information request to them on this issue. I will await their response with interest:
In relation to your May 2014 Bulletin entitled 'Fast Facts: Record Revenues for the UK' I have noted FoI request FOI 3059/13. I have also noted the definition of ‘revenue protected' on page 11 of HMRC's accounts for 2011/12. I should be grateful if you would provide:
1) An analysis of the £23.9bn of additional tax revenue ("the £23.9bn") by customer segment. If such a breakdown cannot be provided, please provide an analysis by the HMRC directorate and, where appropriate, sub-directorate.
2) An analysis of the £23.9bn by the type of customer behaviour to which it relates. Within each behavioural category, please also indicate the amount of revenue that resulted from each of: out of court/pre-litigation settlements; lead litigation cases; litigation follower cases; other.
3) An analysis of the revenue protected included in the £23.9 billion by category as noted in the 2011/12 accounts i.e. split between seizing illicit goods, preventing erroneous payments, deterring future non-compliance, addressing avoidance loopholes, and any other categories used by you for this purpose.
4) An analysis of the revenue protected using the categories noted in FoI 3059/13 i.e. revenue loss prevention, future revenue benefit and product & process revenue.
5) Confirmation of whether the £23.9bn includes the estimated revenue impact of changes to tax law.
6) Confirmation of whether the estimated impact of any or all of the 42 changes to tax law referred to on page 3 of the bulletin was included in the £23.9bn.
7) HMRC's estimate of the revenue impact of the 42 changes of tax law referred to on page 3 of the bulletin along with, if different, the amount of this that was included in the £23.9bn.
8) The amount of the £23.9bn that relates to schemes disclosed under the Disclosure of Tax Avoidance Schemes (DOTAS) regime.
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Although it is nice and maybe necessary to prove these people are talking bullshit I am now very clear that that is what they are doing. Even mentioning £23.9bn in such a way is clearly meant to deceive. I wonder what their response will be since the evidence to date is that they simply don’t respond if they don’t want to. I have been following Mike Sivier’s attempt to get death toll figures of the sick and disabled due to the Atos test debacle http://mikesivier.wordpress.com/2013/07/08/will-the-dwp-do-anything-to-avoid-revealing-the-true-extent-of-the-atos-deaths/ and the DWP are still getting away with no response. This is like asking the burglar why he’s pinching your stuff as he fills his swag bag from your living room and explains that he hasn’t taken any glassware. The conversation will go on and on whilst he continues to rob you. This government are clearly a Mafia style organisation and the ‘statutory procedures’ are simply part of the process. Even when you get some leverage they simply ignore it or move the goal posts. It is as if they let the mouth talk whilst they are sawing off the legs. Anyway I have ticked ‘notify me of comments’ so I will look forward to seeing what they say. 🙂
I may not like all this government does but Mafia style? No, that goes too far
At last…………., your questions are on a professional level, not the usual level of “Noddy” requests and analysis.
Respectfully, I don’t recognise the second grouping
Really good to see you’re putting in an FoI on this Richard. Extremely useful for finding out what’s really going on with HMRC and tax collection.