And it is undermining the ability of HMRC to administer and collect the tax, by cutting its resources too far and too fast.
The reduction in HMRC headcount is a direct consequence of, indeed part of the plan of, the merger of Inland Revenue with Customs&Excise.
Something planned by George Brown when Chancellor. And the SpAd to George Brown when Chancellor was….Ed Balls.
You actually planned this you tosser!
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1 Rob // Jan 14, 2013 at 10:45 am
He is a politician, and a particularly oily example of the breed, so breathtaking hypocrisy and lies are to be expected.
2 KJ // Jan 14, 2013 at 10:55 am
*Pendant alert!!*
*Gordon* Brown
3 AlexB // Jan 14, 2013 at 11:03 am
George Brown?
I know it is difficult to tell Osborne and Gordon’s economics policies apart some times, but surely you aren’t suggesting they are the same man?
4 KJ // Jan 14, 2013 at 11:07 am
Perhaps our genial host is showing his age here and is thinking of the former deputy labour leader from the 60s and 70s?..
5 Richard Gadsden // Jan 14, 2013 at 2:49 pm
George Brown was never Chancellor. He was Secretary of State for Economic Affairs.
And SpAds hadn’t been invented then, so Ed Balls could never have been his SpAd.
6 BraveFart // Jan 14, 2013 at 6:16 pm
Ed Balls
Reason number 43 never to vote Labour
7 John Galt // Jan 14, 2013 at 6:57 pm
@BraveFart:
I hope reason number 43 is the 43rd in a very long list…
8 john77 // Jan 14, 2013 at 7:41 pm
Reason number 43 for “Never”
I’d put him in the top ten for 2015
9 Martin Davies // Jan 14, 2013 at 8:24 pm
I’ve met Ed Balls. He’s the Conservative Party’s greatest asset. Got to be worth a good 20,000 votes in his own right.
I’m just amused that he won re-election as an MP. Though what that says about voters is another matter.
10 Johnathan Pearce // Jan 14, 2013 at 9:07 pm
George Briwn was the minister who spent the Wilson years as a drunk. Understandable, really.
11 Johnathan Pearce // Jan 14, 2013 at 9:07 pm
Oh bugger, Brown!!!!!
12 john77 // Jan 14, 2013 at 9:08 pm
@ Martin Davies
He came close to losing a “safe seat”
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