{"id":13532,"date":"2013-05-31T11:37:03","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T11:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=97aef2a7cf9a2d67794e26b6b3ab1846"},"modified":"2013-05-31T11:37:03","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T11:37:03","slug":"union-attacks-deeply-flawed-hmrc-plan-to-close-walk-in-centres","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=13532","title":{"rendered":"Union attacks \u201cdeeply flawed\u201d HMRC plan to close walk-in centres"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden\">\n<div class=\"field-items\">\n<div class=\"field-item even\" property=\"content:encoded\">\n<p>The plan to close all 281 of the UK\u2019s walk-in tax enquiry centres is \u201cdeeply flawed\u201d and will cost more than it will save, according to the leading trade union for civil servants.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p>The Public Commercial and Commercial Services Union (PCS) has questioned HMRC\u2019s claim that each taxpayer visit costs the department an average of \u00a3152 \u2013 which the union estimates to amount to \u00a3380m a year, more than 10% of the taxman\u2019s &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p>The plan to close all 281 of the UK&rsquo;s walk-in tax enquiry centres is &ldquo;deeply flawed&rdquo; and will cost more than it will save, according to the leading trade union for civil servants.<\/p>\n<p>The Public Commercial and Commercial Services Union (PCS) has questioned HMRC&rsquo;s claim that each taxpayer visit costs the department an average of &pound;152 &ndash; which the union estimates to amount to &pound;380m a year, more than 10% of the taxman&rsquo;s &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13532"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13532"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13532\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13880,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13532\/revisions\/13880"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}