Disturbing Letters From The Taxman

‘We still haven’t received your tax payment and my team are now focusing attention on the rapidly reducing number of people like you who have yet to pay. Not paying your tax on time has serious consequences. We must collect this tax from you to pay for the hospitals and schools we all rely on. We will do that by taking your possessions and auctioning them publically. We don’t like doing this because people have told us that it is embarrassing for them and it will cost you so much more to pay this way. For instance, if your car is worth several thousand pounds, it might sell for only a few hundred pounds at auction, a flat screen TV costing £2,000 would typically sell for about £200 – £300, and an £800 laptop would sell for about £100.’

The above is a nasty, disturbing letter being sent out by HM Revenue & Customs to people who they claim owe tax.
This new policy is not something that would be dreamt up by a local tax collector. It has been approved at high level. It is a marker, highlighting an unpleasant path for what was traditionally a non-political and fair civil service. Government ministers are obviously behind this shameful, threatening letter.
Debt collectors who make idle and bogus threats to get money out of people are stripped of their licences.
But the rules do not apply to HMRC. What a surprise.

The taxman cannot simply say that as you have not paid, he is helping himself. He cannot force his way into your home unless he applies for a legal warrant first.
You do not have to let the bailiffs into your home.
If you refuse entry to a collector they can apply for a warrant to break in to your home but this is hardly ever done.

The taxman wants the owed money ‘to pay for the hospital and schools we all rely on’.
So will the cash help restore cuts to the school building programme? Will it save NHS jobs?
No, of course it won’t. The Revenue has no control over Government spending.
Why doesn’t their letter say that it needs the money to pay MPs’ expenses, or to prop up the Euro, or to fund the £650 million we have decided to give to Pakistan, a country that can somehow afford its own nuclear weapons.
Can this despicable Government sink any lower?