Sorting tax justice/Senseless cuts
Fiction
HMRC cuts save money.
Fact
Job losses and office closures hurt the economy and are a long-term disaster in the waiting – the loss of expertise will never be recovered. In 2005 HMRC employed
97,000 staff, by 2015 that number will have fallen to about 55,000. Yet, after staff costs, the average amount of revenue a HMRC tax professional brings in each year is £945,000. HMRC intends to close an office at Wick that brings in £14.3 million a year to save on rent and staff costs of less than £500,000. This doesn’t make sense.
We Say
Employ more permanent HMRC staff.
