tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29600742611858461.post5682211184820554167..comments2024-03-29T06:52:40.745+00:00Comments on HMRC Is Shite: Training CountsKen Frosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13568488818950912374noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29600742611858461.post-51444608436628787852008-11-01T13:47:00.000+00:002008-11-01T13:47:00.000+00:00LVOs were ground out under the jackboots.LVOs were ground out under the jackboots.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29600742611858461.post-62445110808769274552008-10-22T17:26:00.000+01:002008-10-22T17:26:00.000+01:00OK, Anon, then we ask for a review which goes out ...OK, Anon, then we ask for a review which goes out of time. Then we appeal to the Tribunal and HMRC's legal people spend 18 months asking for more time before agreeing we were right. Then we have to hassle them to give us our money back. Then they ignore a request for interest. How many interest free compulsory loans has the DEAR LEADER taken? We had a pretty good relationship with our LVO until about 2006 but now we can't trust a word of what they are obliged to say to us.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29600742611858461.post-83531848834146764922008-10-22T14:52:00.000+01:002008-10-22T14:52:00.000+01:00All part of the Stasi takeover of a once (relative...All part of the Stasi takeover of a once (relatively) humane and efficient VAT service, John. Decisions are not to be made by the proles - they might make the right ones.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29600742611858461.post-39222222124836027052008-10-22T11:59:00.000+01:002008-10-22T11:59:00.000+01:00And yet, local VAT Officers seem unable to make th...And yet, local VAT Officers seem unable to make the most minor decisions without referring to the centre.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29600742611858461.post-62621088548430574712008-10-21T14:01:00.000+01:002008-10-21T14:01:00.000+01:00Ah, but there are also ex-Revenue senior officers ...Ah, but there are also ex-Revenue senior officers now in charge of criminal investigation teams who don't have a clue about their role. Oh, and they also take the salary increase. There's a bit of a difference between signing a piece of paper and deploying unarmed investigation officers to carry out surveillance and arrests on some potentially extremely violent criminals, don't you think?<BR/>I think the best one I've heard was the ex-IR SO who decided to go on a house search and then insisted on his hour off at lunch time!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29600742611858461.post-26514341716957106092008-10-21T11:59:00.000+01:002008-10-21T11:59:00.000+01:00I spent the best part of 18 months training to be ...I spent the best part of 18 months training to be an Inspector. We now have managers who have never done the ITC course who get the salary increase straight away without taking an exam and think they know it all! Most were previously in "pink fluffy jobs". This sounds very much like "South Central Area" to me.<BR/><BR/>Why though would anybody in their right mind enter into a contract settlement? In the past 19 years I have never issued a penalty determination. HMRC are too scared. <BR/><BR/>As for taking an appeal before the Commissioners forget it. It costs too much.<BR/><BR/>Right I'm going to lie down in a dark room now.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com