{"id":14186,"date":"2012-02-20T19:45:39","date_gmt":"2012-02-20T19:45:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=14186"},"modified":"2012-02-21T08:14:48","modified_gmt":"2012-02-21T08:14:48","slug":"the-uk-borders-agency-was-a-disaster-will-hmrc-follow-now-lin-horner-is-in-charge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/02\/20\/the-uk-borders-agency-was-a-disaster-will-hmrc-follow-now-lin-horner-is-in-charge\/","title":{"rendered":"The UK Borders Agency was a disaster &#8211; will HMRC follow now Lin Homer is in charge?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent Chief Inspector of the UK Borders Agency has <a href=\"http:\/\/icinspector.independent.gov.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/Investigation-into-border-security-checks-20.02.121.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">issued a damning report on its management<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Its<a href=\"http:\/\/www.moneymarketing.co.uk\/politics\/transport-permanent-secretary-is-new-hmrc-chief\/1043048.article\" target=\"_blank\"> Chief Executive from 2008 to 2010<\/a>, when many of the problems must have arisen, was Lin Homer.<\/p>\n<p>She's now the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hmrc.gov.uk\/governance\/lin-homer.htm\" target=\"_blank\">new Chief Executive of\u00a0H M Revenue &amp; Customs<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It's an appointment that can fill no one with hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Independent Chief Inspector of the UK Borders Agency has issued a damning report on its management. Its Chief Executive from 2008 to 2010, when<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2012\/02\/20\/the-uk-borders-agency-was-a-disaster-will-hmrc-follow-now-lin-horner-is-in-charge\/\"><em> Read the full article&#8230;<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[107],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hmrc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}