{"id":31949,"date":"2016-01-11T11:31:22","date_gmt":"2016-01-11T11:31:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/?p=31949"},"modified":"2016-01-11T11:31:22","modified_gmt":"2016-01-11T11:31:22","slug":"lin-homer-is-leaving-hmrc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/01\/11\/lin-homer-is-leaving-hmrc\/","title":{"rendered":"Lin Homer is leaving HMRC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/news\/lin-homer-to-step-down-as-hmrc-ceo-in-april\" target=\"_blank\">has just been announced<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lin Homer has announced today that she is to leave HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in April, after more than four years as Chief Executive and Permanent Secretary and a public service career spanning 36 years.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I'll ignore all the puff in the press release that followed. This is good news for HMRC: Homer has not been a success. A successor who demanded root and branch reform might be. I will await any announcement with curiosity, but not much hope.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This has just been announced: Lin Homer has announced today that she is to leave HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) in April, after more than<br \/><a class=\"moretag\" href=\"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/2016\/01\/11\/lin-homer-is-leaving-hmrc\/\"><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-31949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hmrc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31949","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=31949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.taxresearch.org.uk\/Blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}