Change the way HMRC do things
I am grateful to Richard Mannion, a director of Accountants and Financial Business Advisors Smith & Williamson, for bringing up the subject of recent HMRC error this with Ian Cowie of the Telegraph in the article: “New tax errors could spoil Christmas for thousands”.
The bottom line for the bungling is the appalling way HMRC is run, wasting many tens of millions of pounds of the Public Purse, which needless to say the UK doesn’t have. There is no excuse. The truth of course is that many Civil Service departments are extremely inefficient. A small hand-picked team of professional independent business consultants would probably sort Whitehall out within 6 months, half operating costs, increase productivity 10 times and transform the relationship between Government, the business community and the tax paying consumer.
If there is to be ANY benefit whatsoever of change of seats in House of Parliament which resulted in a coalition of 'soothsayers' then ADDRESSING THE SCANDULOUS INEFFICIENCIES OF HMRC WOULD BE A GOOD ONE TO FOCUS ON AS AN URGENT PRIORITY. Heavy handed tactics from an arrogant inefficient bureaucratic dinosaur is surely a government style e do not need in 21st Century Britain.
So what is the underlying problem? We are. Complicity and conformity. We accept and unacceptable, and secretly believe that nothing can be done nor any changes succeed.
Our choices:
Believe and succeed.
Ignore and remain asleep