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Friday, 31 January 2020

Drugs and Defecation at HMRC's Manchester HQ - WTF!

Fintech Futures reports the following:

"UK government staff working for Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC) have been warned about repeated acts of vandalism at its Manchester HQ, including defecating on toilet floors and using faeces to “write unpleasant messages”.

A member of the facilities management team at HMRC – which governs the collection of tax and payment of state support – wrote to staff about repeated bad behaviour at the department’s Trinity Bridge House HQ in an email seen by FinTech Futures.

“Last week there was another deliberate act of vandalism in the ground floor toilets resulting in the flooding of the facilities and the corridor,” the note states, adding that there has been an increase in reported incidents.

Staff were reported to have “deliberately blocked toilet bowls with paper towels”, smeared “bodily fluids” on doors, walls and toilet seats, used faeces to “write unpleasant messages”, defecated on toilet floors, and taken illegal drugs.

More than one member of HMRC staff is involved in the vandalism, according to the email. It adds that anyone identified as carrying out deliberate acts of vandalism will be dealt with “severely”.

Esther Wallington, chief people officer of HMRC, told FinTech Futures: “These reprehensible actions, committed by a few individuals, have no place in our organisation and absolutely do not reflect the professionalism and values of the overwhelming majority of our Manchester colleagues. We are working with police to investigate these acts of vandalism and identify those responsible.”

The email bears striking resemblance to one issued by Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) chief operating officer Georgina Philippou to staff to the watchdogs’s new Stratford HQ.

Philippou called out employees for defecating on the toilet floors and verbally abusing catering and security staff.

HMRC completed the letting of a new 157,000sq foot Manchester location in March 2018.
The new building, less than a mile away from Trinity Bridge House, will be centred in the New Bailey development near Salford Central station. Members of staff will begin moving to the seven-storey complex from Spring 2022 onwards.

In 2015 HMRC announced its aim to bring employees together into 13 “large, modern offices”, making it “easier to collaborate and work flexibly”.

The department’s Locations Programme is the largest office transformation programme in the UK and involves the development of more than 429,000sq metres of new office space. It plans to save around £300 million up to 2025 through the programme."

WTF!
Tax does have to be taxing.

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Thursday, 20 October 2016

HMRC Employee Shot Dead ‘While Working as a Drug Dealer’

As per the Metro:

"An HMRC taxman who allegedly worked as a drug dealer on the side was shot in a lay-by ‘in a dispute over cash’.

Mark Jones, a government valuation officer, died in hospital two months after the alleged attack despite having 15 operations on his gunshot wounds.

Two brothers, Stephen Bennett, 53, and Edward Bennett, 47, are accused of murdering him at the lay-by on the A4059 in Mountain Ash, South Wales on July 26 last year.

Currently on trial at Cardiff Crown Court, they allegedly targeted 43-year-old Jones in a row over money.
Prosecutor Chris Clee QC said: ‘Edward Bennett was a friend of Mark Jones and had been for some time. He was also involved in drug dealing with Mark Jones.’

Both brothers have pleaded not guilty to murder.

PC John Brimble, who was called to the incident, said he found Jones lying on the floor groaning in pain, ‘ash’ in colour.

Another officer at the scene, PC Maddox, said: ‘I asked Mr Jones if he had been shot. He was in a considerable amount of pain and was groaning.

‘I asked Mr Jones ‘do you know who did this?’.

‘I said ‘are you going to tell me?’ But he said ‘no’.’

Paramedic Simon Tunnicliffe there was a lot of blood and Jones was pale and ‘sweating profusely’.

He treated a wound near Jones’ abdomen and said he also suffered a shattered humerus and a severely injured elbow joint.

CCTV footage was also shown to the court, which showed the movements of a white van, with the word Ashdown written on it, driven by Stephen Bennett, on July 26, 2015.

The trial continues."

Quite a double life was being led there!

Tax does have to be taxing.

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