{"id":23234,"date":"2013-11-29T08:43:57","date_gmt":"2013-11-29T08:43:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=23234"},"modified":"2013-11-29T08:43:57","modified_gmt":"2013-11-29T08:43:57","slug":"why-oh-why-are-hmrc-jobs-going-when-we-have-a-massive-tax-gap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/11\/29\/why-oh-why-are-hmrc-jobs-going-when-we-have-a-massive-tax-gap\/","title":{"rendered":"Why, oh why are HMRC jobs going when we have a massive tax gap?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HM Revenue &amp; Customs admit the UK tax gap exceeds \u00a335 billion a year.<\/p>\n<p>I argue it exceeds \u00a395 billion on top of which there is a mountain of tax paid late.<\/p>\n<p>And <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/uk-england-25139103\" target=\"_blank\">yet the BBC are reporting that<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p id=\"story_continues_1\">More than 700 jobs are under threat in three tax offices in north-west England, the Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union has said.<\/p>\n<p>Consultation has begun with staff in Bootle, Merseyside, Preston in Lancashire and in Salford.<\/p>\n<p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) is deciding whether 3,900 fixed-term contracts across the UK should be terminated when they end in March 2014.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>If anyone can see any logic in laying off tax staff when there is money to be collected perhaps they'd like to explain what it is.<\/p>\n<p>As far as I can see, this is simply a case of the government not wanting to collect tax because that way they can impose cuts, shrink the state and impose stress on those Boris Johnson likes to abuse. I am quite sure these events are connected and that's why I oppose all such cuts.<\/p>\n<p>And yes, I will add that i work with PCS: I'm proud to do so because they and the FDA are seeking to uphold the tradition of the civil service in this area.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HM Revenue &amp; Customs admit the UK tax gap exceeds \u00a335 billion a year. I argue it exceeds \u00a395 billion on top of which there<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2013\/11\/29\/why-oh-why-are-hmrc-jobs-going-when-we-have-a-massive-tax-gap\/\"><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":[107,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hmrc","category-tax-gap"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23234","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=23234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}