tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-755834342571488774.post3498360015014637972..comments2024-03-20T08:05:26.167+00:00Comments on Bracknell Blog: Tax is TaxingMark Thompsonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00744387583593537268noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-755834342571488774.post-67981671449981084872010-01-23T16:56:47.377+00:002010-01-23T16:56:47.377+00:00Billo - yes there could be massive savings if it w...Billo - yes there could be massive savings if it was more joined up.<br /><br />Alvin - Here Here the government really cant micro manage everything like they are trying to do. We need to reduce the size of our government its too expensive.<br /><br />Realaler - True the Car tax system does work well and the passport system, proof that it can be done well.dazmandohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14859994295771083457noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-755834342571488774.post-36779777577730945832010-01-22T18:23:25.195+00:002010-01-22T18:23:25.195+00:00There are alot of benefits of on-line connection w...There are alot of benefits of on-line connection with the Government. For example the renewal of tax discs is a breeze now. We can give them £175 of our already pre-taxed income in about 50 seconds. Nice - but it saves the queuing at Birch Hill post office to be told by some functionary that your 'papers' are not in order.Realalernoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-755834342571488774.post-19960081232373465502010-01-22T13:11:14.926+00:002010-01-22T13:11:14.926+00:00Writing in the Times Newspaper Natalie Haynes says...Writing in the Times Newspaper Natalie Haynes says:<br /> “As I’ve already done my tax return, I decided to do a bit of extra bonus maths. HMRC’s phone lines are open 84 hours a week. Assuming that full-time staff do a 42-hour week (which I’m sure they don’t, exactly, but it’s half of 84, and I only have a pencil, so give me a break. I’m not taking off Bank Holidays and Christmas, either), that means 5,250 staff working at any one time. They answered 59 million calls last year. That’s 2.57 calls per person, per hour. If they’d also answered every one of the calls they ditched, that would still only have brought them up to 4.49 calls per person per hour.”<br /><br /><a href="http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6991700.ece" rel="nofollow">http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6991700.ece</a><br /><br />The trouble is that this government want to micromanage every part of our lives. The systems that they have created are complicated, and require huge amounts of people to run them. It is time to dismantle the behemoth, and move to a government where we have much less interference, and then lower taxationAlvinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11712467699015009159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-755834342571488774.post-39251727821705321252010-01-21T20:44:57.446+00:002010-01-21T20:44:57.446+00:00The sheer amount of money that it requires to coll...The sheer amount of money that it requires to collect often a relatively small amount of cash really does make a mockery of all this form filling. On line or not. Somewhere in their records the IR have almost all of the information already anyway!Bill (Transcriber)https://www.blogger.com/profile/15619489315159751657noreply@blogger.com