Following the Chancellor's recent Budget Speech

The Chancellor of the Exchequer recently announced significant job losses at the Inland Revenue and Customs & Excise by 2008 in his 2004 Budget Speech due to the proposed merger of these two Governmental operations and redeployment of staff following the O'Donnell Review.

The Chancellor said in his Budget Statement: "The Inland Revenue and Customs and Excise are announcing today a gross reduction of 14,000 staff posts, a redeployment of 3,500 staff and thus an overall reduction by 2008 of 10,500 staff numbers.

In these two Departments covering 40 per cent of the civil service, there will be a gross reduction by 2008 of 54,000 posts. And after redeployment, an overall reduction of 40,500 staff".

A Senior Civil Servant who wished to remain anonymous clarified this inconsistency by stating that "In line with Civil Service Custom and Practice, there will be a significant renaming of roles. For example, Inland Revenue and C&E staff who are currently employed to sort incoming mail will be redesignated 'Postal Workers', Human Resources staff will come under the remit of the Department of Work and Pensions in future whilst staff responsible for Health and Safety will, of course, be transferred to the Health and Safety Executive. Office cleaners will, of course, remain in a bog standard contract."

A forthcoming Paper to clarify and expand on the proposed merger of the Departments and its wider effects has been recently acquired through National Technical Means.

The Paper notes that, following the merger, the Departmental name will be changed and that, given the Right of Entry by some C&E Officers and the known deliberate attempts to flout the law by some UK citizens, the new Department will be known as "The Inland Revenge".

The Paper goes on to say that, to streamline the operation after merger, there will be a new Tax Return introduced that will require that the Taxpayer advise, for the forthcoming Tax Year, their likely expenditure on Petrol, Spirits, Wine, Beers, Cigarettes, Cigars, Pipe Tobacco and other goods which currently attract Duty. This allows the calculation of the likely amount of Duty to be paid during the year.

On receipt of the completed Tax Return, the Taxpayer will be issued with a Statutory Notice for pre-payment of Duty. On completion of the Tax Return during the following year, the amount of purchases attracting Duty for the Previous Year will be recalculated and a Refund or Payment Notice will be issued in respect of that Tax Year and the differential applied to the pre-payment for the Current Year Tax liability and, if the pre-payment for the Current Year falls short of the Net Repayment for the Previous Year, the refund will be issued on the 31st January following the completed Tax Return. There will be, usually, no Net Repayment of pre-paid Duty, unless personal circumstances affecting the purchase of goods attracting Duty significantly Change, as it is not expected that a two-tier scheme will be introduced for goods attracting Duty as the double payment (pre-payment and payment on purchase) in Year One will allow Net Interest Accrual on the pre-payments and roll-over.

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