Bloody arrogant revenue and customs

[GROWLER]

Just rung these mealey mouthed bastards. Took over 15 minutes to actually get to speak to one of their 'helpful operatives'...HELPFUL?  
Treated and talked to like a piece of shit.

Told the scottish twat that I couldn't pay in full today, so asked for time to pay over the next few months.
"No, not if you want legal proceedings to stop, unacceptable. We expect you to pay on time...in full"

Wonders probably why I ended up on me soap box ranting about illegal immigrants, Camerons empty wine cellar that presumably needs topping up urgently, the war in Afghanistan, interbreeds with 20 kids with 20 different fatherson the JK show and general claim culture society.

Told him to stick my payment and see you in court.

Rung my accountant and he confirms thay are acting like the gestapo now. Loads of complaints apparently.
Had enough.

[Nick]

Miss C can bake you a cake with a file in it 

[GROWLER]

Miss C can bake you a cake with a file in it 

Not really taking my rant very seriously are you?

I'm incensed ffs!
Totally unaceptable treatment and complaint beckons....not that it'll do any good I suppose, 'cus these utter crooked bastards have got us all over a barrel.

[apc2010]

Do what I did .............knock em........

[Barman]

Just rung these mealey mouthed bastards. Took over 15 minutes to actually get to speak to one of their 'helpful operatives'...HELPFUL?  
Treated and talked to like a piece of shit.

Told the scottish twat that I couldn't pay in full today, so asked for time to pay over the next few months.
"No, not if you want legal proceedings to stop, unacceptable. We expect you to pay on time...in full"

Wonders probably why I ended up on me soap box ranting about illegal immigrants, Camerons empty wine cellar that presumably needs topping up urgently, the war in Afghanistan, interbreeds with 20 kids with 20 different fatherson the JK show and general claim culture society.

Told him to stick my payment and see you in court.

Rung my accountant and he confirms thay are acting like the gestapo now. Loads of complaints apparently.
Had enough.

They are all complete bastards! 

When I ran my business we were so good that they used to bring all their trainees down to see how it should be done... we had all the VAT people in to see how good our books and processes were etc.

The first time we were one fucking day late with the VAT payment they came down on us like a tonne of bricks! 

[Darwins Selection]

Do what I did .............knock em......

.... and get exiled to Cyprus.

[GROWLER]

Do what I did .............knock em........

Knock 'em?
What? Out?

Hugh McGill of HMRC IS a total scottish arrogant twat I may add, and do you know summat, I think he actually knows and is totally proud of the fact.
Untouchable he probably considers himself, and he probably is.
His bosses will no doubt be SO proud of him for his flippant calm attitude against rotties like me, of which their are probably millions of others.

[apc2010]

Do what I did .............knock em......

.... and get exiled to Cyprus.

       they have forgotten now ..............

[Darwins Selection]

Do what I did .............knock em........

Knock 'em?
What? Out?

Hugh McGill of HMRC IS a total scottish arrogant twat I may add, and do you know summat, I think he actually knows and is totally proud of the fact.
Untouchable he probably considers himself, and he probably is.
His bosses will no doubt be SO proud of him for his flippant calm attitude against rotties like me, of which their are probably millions of others.

Not Huge McGill the famous ginger porn-star?

[Snoopy]

You have my sympathy Growler but they have been like this for years.
Their attitude has its basis in the fact that they are trained to recover tax deemed to be due.
Nothing else.
As to whether you can pay or not is irrelevant as far as they are concerned. Their starting point is that for tax to be due you must have earned the money over the tax year and you should have put some aside to pay whatever was going to be due. They are told that is the way businesses should be run and they have no discretion in the matter. You say you can't pay ~ they don't care as they are taught that you have had the money and should have made allowance for your tax debts ... the people you get on the phone cannot see why this should not apply to everyone. They are actually very low grade, low paid clerical staff who work to the script provided.
As to their manner and attitude on the phone ~ mostly that is because they are on the defensive because they know they are going to get arguments and are trying to be assertive in order to deflect them. Unfortunately, and this can be seen in school children too, they do not know the difference between assertiveness and aggression. There are two reasons why you get mainly Scots when you call them. (i) Is that the Government has located such call centres in Scotland over the years to provide work in areas where there is major unemployment and (ii) because some fvckwit produced a paper some years ago that held the theory that most people find a Scottish accent reassuring and pleasant. Of course nobody thought this through so they located the call centres in places where the most unemployment was ~ which, in the case of tax recovery unfortunately happened to be Glasgow, the residents of that fair city have a most aggressive attitude and manner and the local accent is not the traditional "reassuring" Scottish accent spoken of in the report they were working to. Other government departments have their call centres located in Newcastle on Tyne and Northern Ireland ~ where once again the lower paid are aggressive and frankly, at times, unintelligible. Just be grateful you didn't get Vipin or Ranji in India.
AND the worst bit of it all is that there is sod all we can do about it. 

[GROWLER]

He started quoting my past poor record of payments, i.e., not paid on the due date.
I asked him what the hell THAT had to do with the current situation, but he just repeated himself like the jock parrot he obviously is.

It did actually become a personal verbal slanging match in the end, something I rarely do on the 'phone, and if I do I normally apologise eventually, but he was being so snide with his sarcasm and downright rudenss, yes, I was taking it personally, and I could tell by his calm manner that he was lapping it up, bastard porridge slurping sadistic twat.

Zero sympathy here from Mrs G either, she who would rather turn over and have her tummy tickled,  , just to blacken my mood even darker and deeper.

[Nick]

I believe HMRC can raid your home, which is why I steer clear of VAT 

[GROWLER]

I believe HMRC can raid your home, which is why I steer clear of VAT 

They'll be welcome to IF they can find me when I get into 'me 'ut'.

Only assets I'll have will be a pile of logs, 5 miles of barbed wire and a 1 eyed snarling dog.

[Nick]

You'd make a nice rug 

[The Big Boy]

nUT THE SCOTISH BASTARDS