I was going to write something about a few bits of recent news regarding HMRC, but life got in the way so I didn’t bother. However the Devils Knife covering the matter.
So go and read their article which apart from proposing some terribly sensible suggestions for radical tax reform also asks the question which was bugging me, and others. Namely why when the HMRC have just admitted PAYE errors affecting 1.5 Million people and over 6 years of backlog on tax returns would it be a good idea to give them any control over us actually getting our wages. Of course as Longrider observes it may just have been a kite flying exercise though common wisdom seems to be to assume that with such ideas is no matter what the reaction they tend to happen anyway. Also just think about the feature creep on this one, been issued an on the spot fine due to CCTV thinking you dropped litter no need to trouble you about it just take the money direct from your wages as it passes through central computer. Of course I’m sure that the state would do terribly well out of diverting all the rounding errors into it’s own coffers. Captain Ranty also points out the numerous errors they’re liable to make based on past track record which would no doubt also be a nice little earner on the interest front.
