Seriously, can any organisation beat them for sheer incompetence, inefficiency and inability....?
If they were a "private" sector organisation they would have gone out of business before they started.
I won't bore you with the details, but I'm about ready to explode
Seriously, can any organisation beat them for sheer incompetence, inefficiency and inability....?
If they were a "private" sector organisation they would have gone out of business before they started.
What are you on about... they're NEVER wrong! Even when they are! 
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Originally posted by nick205
Seriously, can any organisation beat them for sheer incompetence, inefficiency and inability....?
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Originally posted by Alfa145
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Originally posted by nick205
Seriously, can any organisation beat them for sheer incompetence, inefficiency and inability....?
DVLA? VOSA? Government?
Stop me if ive already said this, but i had a tax investigation, and it transpired from the questions they asked after looking through my accounts, that they hadnt realised i was vat registered. Totally incompetent.
I dealt with them today and they were very helpful and also told me they have sent me a cheque for 500 quid they owe me, so today i like them, but it is very rare for them to get thing right.
You do wonder as they and most other goverment departments are totally inept...there must be quite a few clever ways of working the flaws in the system to ones financial advantage :p
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Originally posted by tegwin
You do wonder as they and most other goverment departments are totally inept...there must be quite a few clever ways of working the flaws in the system to ones financial advantage :p
We have working tax credits... Issued by HMRC... Based on an estimate of my income.. This estimate was taken from my P60 which THEY made.
When I started security I needed a 5 year checkable work history, and since three out of the previous 5 years were working for companies that no
longer exist I had to resort to tax records. Two jobs had no start date, one had no end date and three were missing the amount of tax I had paid.
Eventually they got sick of the "estimates" of my income so I had to get a copy of my P60 (different year to above) and send it to them.
They posted it to me so I could post it back to the other side of the building, and they later admitted that they could see each other in the
different departments.
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Originally posted by Ninehigh
Eventually they got sick of the "estimates" of my income so I had to get a copy of my P60 (different year to above) and send it to them. They posted it to me so I could post it back to the other side of the building, and they later admitted that they could see each other in the different departments.
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Originally posted by chrisxr2
they have sent me a cheque for 500 quid they owe me
It's quite simple - the government pays rubbish wages, so you get the sort of people who'll work for that sort of money. The good people go
to jobs where the salary is respectable.
Not to denigrate the people who do work for HMRC - they're only doing a job - but quite often the work they do requires a higher level of
competence. That costs money, which the civil service won't pay.
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Originally posted by nick205
Seriously, can any organisation beat them for sheer incompetence, inefficiency and inability....?
If they were a "private" sector organisation they would have gone out of business before they started.
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Originally posted by MakeEverything
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Originally posted by Alfa145
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Originally posted by nick205
Seriously, can any organisation beat them for sheer incompetence, inefficiency and inability....?
DVLA? VOSA? Government?
HMRC. (Clue in the title!)
HM Revenue and Customs.
I had a letter from them today as well, telling me that my tax code has changed again for the second time this year already. Im going to have to seek advice from an accountant i think. They are particularly fecking incompetent.
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Originally posted by David Jenkins
It's quite simple - the government pays rubbish wages, so you get the sort of people who'll work for that sort of money. The good people go to jobs where the salary is respectable.
Not to denigrate the people who do work for HMRC - they're only doing a job - but quite often the work they do requires a higher level of competence. That costs money, which the civil service won't pay.
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Originally posted by nick205
Seriously, can any organisation beat them for sheer incompetence, inefficiency and inability....?
If they were a "private" sector organisation they would have gone out of business before they started.
Wouldn't surprise me
Minimum wage is like a black hole for pay... If you don't get the bare minimum you don't get much above it
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Originally posted by Ninehigh
Wouldn't surprise me
Minimum wage is like a black hole for pay... If you don't get the bare minimum you don't get much above it
HMRC are a bunch of incompetent twats! I have had 6 (yes 6!) tax coding notices already this year. The strange thing is, I also received 'older dated' coding notices after newer ones?!?! As in the one that arrived last week was superseded by the one that arrived the week before!! They say I owe them money, £240 which they will take off my tax free amount next year (fair enough), and then send me a cheque for £26 the week after?? WTF?? Useless.
How about this:
I've lived in Spain for eleven years and had 7 days in UK in that time. Despite clearly being non-resident in UK for tax purposes, they send me a
code (to my Spanish and only address, naturally) every year in an effort to extract tax from me.
I was 20 minutes waiting for a human to answer the phone last week, in order that I could point out this year's error.
Couldn't organise a fu## up in a brothel with a fist-full of fivers.
Despite the above, Dave Hartnett, (HMRC's chief inspector of taxes) lets Vodafone off with a £6bn tax bill. (See Private Eyes passim).
You couldn't make it up !!!
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Originally posted by Proby
HMRC are a bunch of incompetent twats! I have had 6 (yes 6!) tax coding notices already this year. The strange thing is, I also received 'older dated' coding notices after newer ones?!?! As in the one that arrived last week was superseded by the one that arrived the week before!! They say I owe them money, £240 which they will take off my tax free amount next year (fair enough), and then send me a cheque for £26 the week after?? WTF?? Useless.