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As part of the HMRC review into powers and safeguards, and the consulation on working with tax agents, you are invited to chat with Dave Harnett, Permanent Secretary for Tax, on 18 June, at 2pm.  Lucky you.

The condoc  is already causing considerable annoyance to professionals; many of whom are utterly fed up with having to bear the time and expense of dealing not just with the rank administrative shortcomings of Hartnett's department but, also, the woeful lack of technical competence routinely displayed by even senior Revenue officers.

To now read this thoroughly insulting drivel ...

"Working with Tax Agents" aims to ensure that as many as possible of the returns and claims submitted by agents are accurate and viable. HMRC thinks this is in the interests of the profession, taxpayers and HMRC and that inaccurate returns damage the standing of the profession, inconvenience taxpayers and waste HMRC resources."

... leaves one wondering whether the stage has now been reached where it is no longer even worth humouring the Revenue.  Note how, when it suits his purpose, Dismal Dave has no difficulty in referring to taxpayers as taxpayers, and not as customers. Funny that.

One supposes the usual talking heads from the Big 4 will be wheeled out to make the predictably obsequious noises in the direction of the Revenue, for fear that their employers might otherwise lose their preposterously lucrative government contracts and lobby access.

For everyone else, the only appropriate response is a boycott.