HMRC's Secret Board Meetings

I was having a nose around the HMRC site yesterday, and cast my eye over the HMRC Board Committee Summary Minutes page.

Can you spot what is wrong here children?

Yes, that's right, there have been no minutes posted since November 2011!

Does this mean that there have been no executive board meetings, or does this mean that the minutes simply haven't been posted?

Does anyone have the answer, if so, please share with the rest of us?

Thanks.

Tax does have to be taxing.

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HMRC Ambition

HMRC are to be congratulated for their skills in finding new ways to waste our money.

The good people of HMRC have spent £1.5M, in a series of "brainstorming away days" for 450 of HMRC's "finest" brains, to create a slogan for HMRC.

Guess what earth shattering result they came up with?


"HMRC Ambition"


Don't like that very much?

Worried that it may not be worth £1.5M?

Well try these for size, these are the rejected ideas:

-a "pink and fluffy" logo spelling out "Thank You" to those who paid their taxes

-a steel-grey "Elite Enforcement" warning tax evaders they would be "hunted down".

"Hunted down"?

What have these people been smoking?

An HMRC spokesman said:

"If you improve the quality and leadership in the department it benefits everyone from people who claim tax credits to the Government."

I agree, unfortunately this is not an example of an improvement in quality or leadership.

Money well spent!

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Where's The Minutes?

Why are there no executive committee minutes published on the HMRC website after 12 June 2007?

Have they stopped having meetings, or is it that they don't want the humble taxpayer to read what they have been discussing?

Oh, my mistake, seemingly there haven't been any meetings since then:

"The next meeting of the Executive Committee will be on the 30th January 09.00AM, room 4/58.1, 100 Parliament Street, London."

Why the hell not?

They were pretty regular up until June, and there have been quite a few "issues" (resignations, datagate, possible strike action etc etc) arising since then.

Who's actually running this organisation?

Other meetings, or their minutes, seem to be on hold as well, eg:

- the last minutes posted for the Departmental Board meeting were dated August 2007

- the last minutes posted for the audit committee meeting were dated September 2006!

- the last minutes posted for the operating committee meeting were dated August 2006

What the hell's going on?

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