tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29600742611858461.post8948895218785819015..comments2024-03-29T12:42:09.985+00:00Comments on HMRC Is Shite: K2 The Savage Mountain - Cameron Castigates Carr's MoralityKen Frosthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13568488818950912374noreply@blogger.comBlogger9125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29600742611858461.post-21186156835497611462012-06-22T18:39:33.480+01:002012-06-22T18:39:33.480+01:00No.
I'm one of the 90% of staff who have noth...No.<br /><br />I'm one of the 90% of staff who have nothing to do with phones and or call centres. But of course, simpletons like you just latch onto the latest trendy argument.<br /><br />And I understand IR35. Very well.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29600742611858461.post-11428296067177482532012-06-22T15:35:18.532+01:002012-06-22T15:35:18.532+01:00Keep up, http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/f...Keep up, http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/feb/19/moira-stewart-tax-private-companyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29600742611858461.post-39720236467381570752012-06-22T08:16:13.772+01:002012-06-22T08:16:13.772+01:00The Chancellor has been very quiet lately?
There ...The Chancellor has been very quiet lately?<br /><br />There again HMRC is a total mess whether its IR35, answering phones or having a large contract with V*daf*ne and a director of tax who left to join..........<br />The sheer scale of data loss is frightening as is the total lack of accountability for its managers.<br /><br />Wonder where Moira Stewart pays tax or not?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29600742611858461.post-32244953556081685662012-06-21T20:46:12.497+01:002012-06-21T20:46:12.497+01:00Ringing telephones keeping you awake are they?Ringing telephones keeping you awake are they?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29600742611858461.post-55529963799795561362012-06-21T19:44:45.443+01:002012-06-21T19:44:45.443+01:00When I heard Mr Carr's apology etc, I could no...When I heard Mr Carr's apology etc, I could not help but think of George Orwell's 1984 and how a very humble and broken person that had under gone attitude adjustment, would go onto the state's broadcaster and grovel and say how they were ashamed and had made mistakes etc.....<br /><br />I hope that all those that are banging on about people that avoid paying some tax, which is legal, will actually make donations to HM government just so that they too pay more than they have to.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29600742611858461.post-35721533034118972482012-06-21T19:28:40.449+01:002012-06-21T19:28:40.449+01:00Yaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.Yaaaaaaaaaaawwwwwwwwwwwwwwnnnnnnnnnnnnnn.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29600742611858461.post-47847559414579524892012-06-21T19:05:58.075+01:002012-06-21T19:05:58.075+01:00Another possibility is that HMRC staff don't u...Another possibility is that HMRC staff don't understand IR35.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29600742611858461.post-55171025819424148162012-06-21T17:55:28.194+01:002012-06-21T17:55:28.194+01:00Interesting comments about the 'off-payroll...Interesting comments about the 'off-payroll' council and civil service workers.<br /><br />Again, however, providing certain criteria are met, it is perfectly legal for a company or body to give work to self-employed contractors or companies. If those companies employ ex-Government employees, there is a mechanism known as IR35 to stop any unfair tax advantage but on the whole the IR 35 rules are relatively easily circumvented OR HMRC just do not have the time or appropriate man-power to look into these arrangements. <br /><br />Or they COULD be turning a deliberate blind eye but that of course would be against the taxpayers charter.......rentawitchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06061934267654343811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-29600742611858461.post-52740923621745227822012-06-21T13:39:04.508+01:002012-06-21T13:39:04.508+01:00All very interesting but rather misses the point a...All very interesting but rather misses the point about the reason taxes exist at all. Contrary to most popular beliefs they have not been designed to help the poor but instead mainly serve to direct money from relatively humble producers to unproductive elites. The government is simply the mechanism by which this transfer takes place which is why it invariable dominated by a relatively small and well connected group within society. Unfortunately, this only works so long as those at the top do not get too greedy. It was the reluctance of French aristocrats to pay any tax at all while heaping levies on the peasants and small tradesmen that ultimately led to the French Revolution. In the end governments that can not raise any tax cease to exist. Moreover, any new regimes that replace them may not feel constrained by the former tax code or even due process of law. It will probably simply just confiscate all the wealth that lies in the hands of the old guard just as the Jacobins did in the 1790's. The simple truth is that the toffs need the masses to keep paying taxes and rents without provoking them to revolution.. Cameron understands that for this to continue at least the facade of a fair tax system needs to be maintained. For this reason alone tax dodgers like Jimmy Carr, who are simply not very important, will be sacrificed.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com