Malicious calls swamp tax hotline

[Sweetpea]

A hotline set up to catch income tax cheats has been flooded with calls from people making malicious and unfounded allegations, MPs have been told.
One woman made 68 calls to report her husband - none of which had led to an investigation, the Public Accounts Committee was told. Dave Hartnett, acting chairman of HM Revenue and Customs, said he was "disappointed by the quality" of calls.

The committee was told 28,000 people were investigated each year - but Mr Hartnett denied claims by chairman Edward Leigh that the chance of being caught were "virtually nil". He said "we are getting better and better at catching people" but conceded that only two cases per thousand were successfully prosecuted.

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They want to concentrate more on those fiddling benefit. A whole lot more gets sucked up there!!

What a surprise.

Maybe they should just have a name & shame website for any idiot to waste public funds on.

Maybe the Inland Revenue should have a more concentrated view on what they're supposed to do instead of being a tax collector/benefits agency?

[Haqa]

Maybe we should scrap the whole bloody lot of them, put them all on the dole, see if they can make ends meet without fiddling...

H.

Originally Posted by Haqa

Maybe we should scrap the whole bloody lot of them, put them all on the dole, see if they can make ends meet without fiddling...

H.

Thatcher would. She wasn't completely heartless.

[Haqa]

Originally Posted by churchill

Thatcher would. She wasn't completely heartless.

Heart? Probably, soul - Juries out...

H.