{"id":29741,"date":"2015-07-17T09:09:05","date_gmt":"2015-07-17T08:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=29741"},"modified":"2015-07-17T09:09:14","modified_gmt":"2015-07-17T08:09:14","slug":"hmrcs-running-away-from-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/07\/17\/hmrcs-running-away-from-you\/","title":{"rendered":"HMRC&#8217;s running away from you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HMRC <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/uploads\/system\/uploads\/attachment_data\/file\/446021\/HMRC_Annual_Report_and_Accounts_2014-15_-_Executive_Summary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">published it annual report yesterday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>One of its claims, styled as an achievement, was that it now has only 170 offices compared with 539 in 2005.<\/p>\n<p>That sounds like HMRC is running as far away as possible as it can from you and in a democracy where tax is the consideration in the social contract between the electorate and those who govern them I call that a massive democratic failure.<\/p>\n<p>But I am sure that the big business dominated HMRC Board, who still insist on calling taxpayers customers despite their reluctance to go anywhere near them, hold a very different view. Of the merits of democracy, that is, as well as on office location and its importance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HMRC published it annual report yesterday. One of its claims, styled as an achievement, was that it now has only 170 offices compared with 539<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2015\/07\/17\/hmrcs-running-away-from-you\/\"><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-29741","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hmrc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29741","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=29741"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29741\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29741"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29741"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29741"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}