Time to resign Dave Hartnett

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laresSun 23/10/11 18:58		One of the many posters at the OccupyLSX camp at St. Paul's is a condemnation of the "hand shake" deal that the head of the HM Revenue & Customs did with huge businesses to avoid their tax bills. With any luck, his time is now running out. "Revenue and Customs office faces MPs' backlash after secret deals with bankers" "Commons committee tells cabinet secretary to act over 'out of control' civil servant Dave Hartnett" "The cabinet secretary is to investigate demands from senior MPs for fundamental reform of Revenue and Customs after it admitted "mistakenly" giving millions of pounds to some of the richest bankers in the world. MPs, led by Margaret Hodge, the chairwoman of the public accounts committee, confronted Gus O'Donnell after they had accused Britain's most powerful taxman of lying to parliament about a secret sweetheart deal he cut with Goldman Sachs. They said that the head of the civil service had to consider how to bring greater accountability to the Revenue's dealings with big business. The Conservative MP Richard Bacon, a fellow member of the public accounts committee, said that if Dave Hartnett, permanent secretary for tax at HM Revenue & Customs, had been a politician, "he would have been forced to resign by now". Other MPs claimed that Hartnett was "out of control" and that there were no effective checks and balances on him in Whitehall or Westminster. Even before the Goldman Sachs deal, Hartnett had become the most controversial tax commissioner in the history of the Revenue. He agreed to allow Vodafone to escape a minimum of £1 billion in tax. Freedom of Information requests revealed that he had enjoyed 107 lunches over two years with corporations, the "big four" accountancy firms, and banks, including Goldman Sachs. Despite assuring members of the treasury select committee that he did not deal with Goldman's tax affairs, Hartnett had to admit to the Public Accounts committee that he had confirmed a deal that allowed the bankers to escape the interest and penalties on unpaid tax that ordinary citizens and businesses must pay if they fall foul of the Revenue." http://1sq.me/nidsPE
dazbarSun 23/10/11 19:07		We're all in this together!!!
urqhart03Sun 23/10/11 19:08		Its good to see the politicians have finally read back editions of Private Eye which has been covering these dodgy deals for months now.
laresMon 24/10/11 13:10		quoting > "Its good to see the politicians have finally read back editions of Private Eye which has been covering these dodgy deals for months now." Lets hope they actually do something about it.

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