The tax man is telling fairytales……..
The February edition of HMRC’s thrice-yearly “Employer Bulletin” normally contains a CD of software designed to help small firms deal with their tax obligations. There should be an employee database, tax calculators and automatic form generators. “Install Immediately”, the taxman’s packaging urges. The CD is updated and mailed out twice per year.
This year ‘hard working British payroll administrators’ received 16 CD audio files with titles such as Zwei Ordentliche Kinder (Two Tidy Children), Der Flohzirkus (The Flea Circus) and Gespenster (Ghosts). Each features a kindly-sounding woman reading a short children’s story, Jackanory-style.
Software Logistics managing director Barry Hurley said a mix up had occured in the manufacturing process which meant CDs of German children’s stories were printed with the HMRC label and so wrongly packaged. “We aware of the situation. It’s a very rare occurrence,” he said.
“It’s of course regrettable and we are working with HMRC to ensure replacements are sent out as soon as possible.”
Remember this when the tax man accuses you of telling him fairytales…….he probably won’t, mind you, your name and address will be on the CD he sent out to hard pressed single mothers in Germany – that’s if it didn’t get left on a train on its way to the Post Office.
Hat tip to Chris Williams
March 4, 2009 at 18:52
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Just been back to check the crystal ball and there appears to be a murky
swirling mass.
It’s either Harriet Harman taking her drawers off in a cramped broom
cupboard or a massive militant uprising of the heretofore unwashed members of
our species finally joining in with the feeble-minded like me ……………… and
deciding that enough is enough.
Civil liberties are no longer with us …………….. in any shape or form.
How the Hell have we allowed this to happen?
As Anna Raccon has already written ……………. Laws are being passed without
rebuke or debate.
We are doomed. It is obvious that the UK public are involved in an early
experiment to see how easily it is to control millions of people. I note that
they are not starting this experiment in Germany or France! Just our tiny
group of islands and errrrrr…………….. places like Zimbabwe. Very scary.
- March 3, 2009 at 00:05
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The best laid plans of mice and mouses….
- March 3, 2009 at 00:00
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Is this the point where we have to say – ”Is this bloody Government in
charge of the monkeys that work for them?” Again!
I think that we are setting too much store by computers and data on dvds
and cds. Everything is down to computer error these days and too much is done
by the click of a mouse.
We cannot rely on mice and machines for everything! Will somebody ring
Whitehall for me omorrow please. I would do it myself but they have taken out
an injunction against me and I am not allowed to ring any Governmental
departments until Gordie Bruney gas left office ………….. Which according to my
crystal-ball is next year ……….. unless anarchy breaks out this Summer.
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March 3, 2009 at 00:02
- March 2, 2009 at 23:46
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Are you sitting comfortably…………. here’s a whopping big tax bill for you.
Unless of course you are a banker sat on the beach laughing your cap off.
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