Rejected petition No cuts! Support a campaign against job cuts and office closures in HMRC.

Rejected on 18 February 2016

In 2005 HMRC, the government department responsible for assessing, enforcing and collecting taxes employed approximately 105,000 members of staff. The 2016 figure currently stands at 58,000, almost a 50% reduction.HMRC are seeking to cut further jobs, close offices and impose compulsory redundancies

HMRC's “plan” is to close all 170 HMRC offices, move to regional hubs and four ‘specialist sites’ and axe thousands more jobs.It makes no economic sense to cut the jobs responsible for bringing in the monies that pay for public services when the UK tax gap, made up of uncollected, avoided or evaded tax is reliably estimated to be £119bn a year.Instead we need to cut the tax gap.Please sign our petition and join us in our campaign against austerity, against job cuts and to close the tax gap.

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https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/112342

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