HMRC - Would you trust them to do this?

[Duncan Rounding]

http://bit.ly/9mjxbK This has been kept pretty quiet - rightly so considering the recent PAYE events.

[completerookie]

opening para of section 2.1

The Government is committed to improving the competitiveness of the UK’s tax system

what the hell is "competitive" about our tax system, is there someone else that wants to try running the tax system?

reading further, £1b to collect (I bet the online computer system can't be written on-time,on-budget and working for £1b - nothing else they've ever tried to automate, has ever been done to spec!