Submitted on Tuesday 16th February 2016
Rejected on Thursday 18th February 2016
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
No cuts! Support a campaign against job cuts and office closures in HMRC.
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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The Government e-Petitions Team gave the following reason:
There's already a petition about this issue. We cannot accept a new petition when we already have one about a very similar issue.
You are more likely to get action on this issue if you sign and share a single petition.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/112342
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