My thanks to a loyal reader who has pointed me to an FOI request about EDI in HMRC, that seems to be being ignored by HMRC.
"Dear HM Revenue and Customs,
Please provide documentary evidence of the process in place at 1/8/2025 to ensure the appropriateness of presentations, learning, etc run under the EDI banner. For example to ensure the presentations complied with government guidance.
Please provide documentary evidence of the role the central EDI Team had in ensuring EDI events across HMRC complied with the Civil Service Expenditure and Impartiality Guidance.
Please provide numbers and associated staff costs of attendees at EDI events run from 1/1/25 to 30/4/25.
Please also provide details of the salary of the EDI Team for the same period.
Yours faithfully,"
Quite why HMRC is avoiding answering this is unclear.
Tax does have to be taxing.
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So bullying in HMRC is only bad if it's white people being bullied.
ReplyDeleteStraight, white, males are bullied with impunity if their face doesn't fit at HMRC.
ReplyDeleteThese evil monsters are afraid of the truth coming out.
"evil monsters".
DeleteSnowflake, nutter or both?
I agree with the above. If you want to label me, how about victim and survivor of HMRC abuse
DeleteWhy wouldn't you be a survivor?
DeleteAre disagreeable line managers in HMRC killing people now?
Another bleeding snowflake.
Why on earth do people who believe HMRC are evil monsters who abuse their staff want DEI abolished?
DeleteIt makes no sense.
HMRC will be an agile department with top notch IT Systems by 2030.
ReplyDeleteThere's more chance of me getting a marriage proposal from Taylor Swift.
https://www.publictechnology.net/2025/09/19/economics-and-finance/minister-hmrc-will-be-an-agile-department-with-modern-it-by-2030/
He said something about HMRC being a total dog pile, couldn't manage an Ice Cream Van and think about picking up the phone to punters.
ReplyDeletehttps://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/exchequer-secretary-speech-to-the-annual-hmrc-conference
No more paid jollies on HMRC's dollar, with with Tea and Jaffa Cakes thrown in, I'm afraid.
ReplyDeletePerfectly okay to have it in their own time. I wonder how many will show up?
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2025/09/22/civil-servants-banned-holding-nonsense-network-events-work/
Any right of appeal. What happens if you've taken the money and it's incorrect, are you going to refund the money. Will they have to wait twelve months for it like the rest of the garden variety punters that want their money back?
ReplyDeleteAre you going to make people homeless because they can't feed their kids and pay the mortgage after emptying their bank account
Which bright spark come up with this?
Westminster blobs that pays £4 a subsidized full English Breakfast
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/tax/news/hmrc-uses-new-powers-to-raid-taxpayers-accounts-directly/
I haven't read the Telegraph article because it's behind a paywall.
DeleteBut according to other news sources this procedure will only be implemented after the appeals process has run out of time and when the taxpayer refuses to communicate with HMRC.
Also there will be a minimum of £5,000 left in any account accessed. So no starving children.