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Author:  The Engineer [ Wed Sep 29, 2010 7:29 pm ]
Post subject:  British humour from the Tax man

Taken from the Guardian newspaper, an actual letter sent by the Inland Revenue:


Dear Mr Addison

I am writing to you to express our thanks for your more than prompt reply to our latest communication, and also to answer some of the points you raise. I will address them, as ever, in order.

Firstly, I must take issue with your description of our last as a "begging letter". It might perhaps more properly be referred to as a "tax demand". This is how we, at the Inland Revenue have always, for reasons of accuracy; traditionally referred to such documents.

Secondly, your frustration at our adding to the "endless stream of crapulent whining and panhandling vomited daily through the letterbox on to the doormat" has been noted. However, whilst I have naturally not seen the other letters to which you refer, I would cautiously suggest that their being from "pauper councils, Lombardy pirate banking houses and pissant gas-mongerers" might indicate that your decision to "file them next to the toilet in case of emergencies" is at best a little ill-advised. In common with my own organisation, it is unlikely that the senders of these letters do see you as a "lackwit bumpkin" or, come to that, a "sodding charity". More likely they see you as a citizen of Great Britain with a responsibility to contribute to the upkeep of the nation as a whole.

Which brings me to my next point. Whilst there may be some spirit of truth in your assertion that the taxes you pay "go to shore up the canker-blighted, toppling folly that is the Public Services", a moment's rudimentary calculation ought to disabuse you of the notion that the government in any way expects you to "stump up for the whole damned party" yourself. The estimates you provide for the Chancellor's disbursement of the funds levied by taxation, whilst colourful, are, in fairness, a little off the mark. Less than you seem to imagine is spent on "junkets for Bunterish lickspittles" and "dancing whores" whilst far more than you have accounted for is allocated to, for example, "that box-ticking facade of a university system."

A couple of technical points arising from direct queries:

1. The reason we don't simply write "Muggins" on the envelope has to do with the vagaries of the postal system.

2. You can rest assured that "sucking the very marrows of those with nothing else to give" has never been considered as a practice because even if the Personal Allowance didn't render it irrelevant, the sheer medical logistics involved would make it financially unviable.

I trust this has helped.

In the meantime, whilst I would not in any way wish to influence your decision one way or the other, I ought to point out that even if you did choose to "give the whole foul jamboree up and go and live in India" you would still owe us the money.


Please forward it by Friday.


Yours sincerely,

H J Lee, Customer Relations

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To my friends on the other side of the pond............................... :?

Ian.

Author:  the_whizzler [ Fri Oct 01, 2010 7:33 am ]
Post subject:  Re: British humour from the Tax man

:uplaugh:

Author:  Driver8 [ Fri Oct 01, 2010 11:52 am ]
Post subject:  Re: British humour from the Tax man

That was from the Guardian a few years ago and if it is totally true (and not just the journo having a laugh) it's superb! :lol:

But (and it's a big BUT), I've got to question it's authenticity as it's allegedly been written by a tax specialist, and yet it's actually amusing. On those grounds alone it can't be true! :wink: :lol:

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