How do words make you feel?

BJV

I am a small business owner and get fed up to the back teeth of being liable for everything. I wish I had no staff, not because I don't like them not because they don't do a good job but gosh they are the biggest head ache I have.

Small business's are the real lifeblood of the country and the amount of red tape, hoops and barriers you have to jump through is mind blowing. We are a responsible employer and look after our staff, they get a good wage, health care, cars, we appreciate them but it does not stop them ( ok well a small few ) taking the "mick". It is not always the big bad employer!!!

For what it is worth I hope we don't all become self employed as it will be a bigger nightmare but a little help from the likes of HMRC every now and again would be good.

Nice to see where our tax gets spent. If HMRC would like to employ me to do a survey on if people think that they pay too much tax and that what they are paying is being wasted let me know. ha ha

pogofish

Surely the words Cutting Tax - the title of this forum are the only ones you need to take heed of?

Wayne_O_Mac

Bluebirdman_of_Alcathays wrote: »

Oh behave. And get into the real world.

It's the tone of the post - use of words like 'brigade' makes it quite clear what Pennywise thinks about employees being protected from abusive practices.

Pennywise is an apt username - a complete clown, and in this case a malevolent one.

kidmugsy

le_loup wrote: »

nothing whatever to do with greed then?

Only in the sense of politicians' greed for votes by appealing to the greed of employees for costly benefits.

ManofLeisure_2

HMRC wrote: »

. It'll only take a few minutes! Thank you. https://goo.gl/forms/L9hYqFaVyzefRArv2

The survey is closed and so I don't have a clue about it's content. However, the word 'It'll' in the original post really annoys me lol

G_M

So ' HMRC' is an Official Company Representative.

"MSE has given permission for me to post in response to queries about the company, so that I can help solve issues."

8 posts to date, none of them responding to queries or solving issues.........

Be nice to see him regularly monitoring the forum and contributing. There are constantly threads started by posters with tax queries/issues.

As for the HMRC phone line: don't bother unless

a) you have lots of time
b) you have inclusive calls on your phone package and
c) you enjoy listening to repetitive music

agrinnall

Hey G_M, have you morphed into Ginger Bob? I usually get on OK on the phone to them, but I pick my time to call them whenever possible so that I don't have a long wait.

I suspect the wording is standard provided by MSE to all official posters rather than being tailored to specific actions. I very much doubt if the person posting for HMRC has any responsibility beyond running the survey. I imagine that being a proper HMRC rep on here would be about as useful as the CAB one was.

booksurr

agrinnall wrote: »

I very much doubt if the person posting for HMRC has any responsibility beyond running the survey.

agreed, they could easily be a "consultant" being paid to do the work for HMRC rather than an actual employee but MSE chose/required them be presented as HMRC for credibility reasons. The survey struck me as a typical bit of touchy feely nonsense that consultants do come up with to justify their fees rather than a down to earth solution to a real problem. (And yes I did complete it)

agrinnall wrote: »

I imagine that being a proper HMRC rep on here would be about as useful as the CAB one was.

be fair, if HMRC genuinely tried to help on here they would be inundated with issues that would end up with an employee spending lots of time having to seek answers from specialist colleagues, since they will not have the breath and/or depth of knowledge that posters on here do when answering the range of questions the board gets. Even the few current HMRC staff who semi-openly post on here don't get it right all the time.

Yes it would be a 21st century improvement if HMRC did get engaged in such manner but I doubt they have the money or inclination to do so.

The CAB board had limitations because of the range of questions people asked and the set up being channelled through, as I understood it, a single CAB office who did not have the knowledge to support it properly?

GingerBob_3

agrinnall wrote: »

Hey G_M, have you morphed into Ginger Bob? I usually get on OK on the phone to them, but I pick my time to call them whenever possible so that I don't have a long wait.

I suspect the wording is standard provided by MSE to all official posters rather than being tailored to specific actions. I very much doubt if the person posting for HMRC has any responsibility beyond running the survey. I imagine that being a proper HMRC rep on here would be about as useful as the CAB one was.

Careful

GingerBob_3

G_M wrote: »

So ' HMRC' is an Official Company Representative.

"MSE has given permission for me to post in response to queries about the company, so that I can help solve issues."

8 posts to date, none of them responding to queries or solving issues.........

Be nice to see him regularly monitoring the forum and contributing. There are constantly threads started by posters with tax queries/issues.

As for the HMRC phone line: don't bother unless

a) you have lots of time
b) you have inclusive calls on your phone package and
c) you enjoy listening to repetitive music

Like many organisations these days, they like to think of themselves as "a business", when they are anything but. So they have "customers" and a "business plan" and executives with levels of pay that go beyond obscenity. Put most of the high-level HMRC buffoons in a real business and they'd have it bankrupt in no time.