tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29600742611858461.post4481637435019189541..comments2024-03-29T06:52:40.745+00:00Comments on HMRC Is Shite: Diamonds Are Forever! - HMRC Becomes Diamond ShapedKen Frosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13568488818950912374noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29600742611858461.post-50795005852096530582015-10-06T13:36:04.065+01:002015-10-06T13:36:04.065+01:00Well summed up @09.40....
What is your beef @2.18 ...Well summed up @09.40....<br />What is your beef @2.18 ?...is it senior management in the old Inland Revenue..the loss of a lovely building....or just the Inland Revenue as a whole ?<br /><br />Don't tar all of the Inland Revenue with the same brush....we are on the same sinking ship ;(Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29600742611858461.post-58355916870723537522015-10-06T09:40:43.066+01:002015-10-06T09:40:43.066+01:00You certainly don't seem to like people whose ...You certainly don't seem to like people whose careers started in Inland Revenue. I think maybe you're missing one important point. <br /><br />Whether we liked it or not, or considered it a good or a bad thing, after the merger people were not either Customs & Excise people or Revenue people - they are HMRC people. Over-simplistic I know but clinging to the idea of one part being somehow inferior to the other is hardly constructive.<br /><br />I recall many "Revenue" people feeling they were "pushed into" Custom House, as opposed to C&E staff being pushed out to accommodate them.<br />And turning Custom House into a posh hotel isn't going to preserve its character nor mean it will belong to the people of Belfast.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29600742611858461.post-84855913206427405712015-10-06T02:18:49.098+01:002015-10-06T02:18:49.098+01:00How about moving the Inland Revenue people out of ...How about moving the Inland Revenue people out of the Custom House, (Most of the Custom and Excise people were forced out in 2009). These Revenue people, many of them senior managers, could be housed in various empty office buildings around Belfast. <br />Charles Lanyons Custom House could then be converted to a beautiful Italian Renaissance style hotel, restaurant. Jobs and investment created in one go. The whole thing would fit in with the regeneration of that part of the city.<br /><br />Mapley own the building so I guess its up to them. <br /><br />What do you say muppet @ 15:34. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29600742611858461.post-37965795218445678392015-10-05T22:05:15.319+01:002015-10-05T22:05:15.319+01:00Well said!
Custom House, Belfast is a very nice b...Well said!<br /> Custom House, Belfast is a very nice building, but the people who work in it, both the many former C&E and former IR staff who are working in it don't deserve to be shed to preserve a building.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29600742611858461.post-67739062611439974582015-10-05T15:34:31.148+01:002015-10-05T15:34:31.148+01:00.....love your thinking...lose hundreds of jobs in........love your thinking...lose hundreds of jobs in Belfast just so you can have a beautiful building to look at.....muppet !!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29600742611858461.post-22205087741441407712015-10-05T15:27:21.646+01:002015-10-05T15:27:21.646+01:00Now this is spooky.
The profile shape of HMRC as o...Now this is spooky.<br />The profile shape of HMRC as observed from a Government Survey of headcounts by department is less like a diamond and more like the cross-section of the F117 (Nighthawk) stealth fighter!<br />See;<br />https://twitter.com/GavinFreeguard/status/641954092898717696/photo/1<br /><br />Off we go into the wild blue yonder...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29600742611858461.post-7122301332980407322015-10-05T13:12:41.334+01:002015-10-05T13:12:41.334+01:00Belfast? I hope it goes, the Custom House is a b...Belfast? I hope it goes, the Custom House is a beautiful building and should belong to the people of that city, rather than the Inland Revenue muppets who destroyed it in 2005. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29600742611858461.post-67576894744056523432015-10-05T12:32:03.268+01:002015-10-05T12:32:03.268+01:00Diamond shaped - what a gem of a description for a...Diamond shaped - what a gem of a description for a multifaceted, multifunctionally disorganised department!<br /><br />A leaner, flexible and more quickly deployable workfarce, neither connected with its staff or its taxpayers/customers.<br /><br />There must be a few sweepstakes going on in there at the moment;<br />How long has Homer got?<br />What poor sods will see her at the top of their organisation?<br />What will Pacesetter be replaced with, IIP2, common cure, common sense?<br /><br />No change then.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29600742611858461.post-19933854209254762582015-10-05T11:48:19.133+01:002015-10-05T11:48:19.133+01:00They announced all this years ago probably as far ...They announced all this years ago probably as far back as 2011 it was always the plan to have reduced to 16 offices by 2020.<br /><br />It has been on the intranet for years which 16 offices they intended to keep and there were none in Lincolnshire & East Anglia,<br /><br />If I remember rightly the offices intended for retention where Cumbernauld, Newcastle, Washington, Manchester, Leeds, Bradford, Birmingham, Cardiff, Southampton, Portsmouth, Bristol and a few in London.<br /><br />So this is old news just being brought back as the final annoucement to be made.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com