Some senior civil servants are having their tax bills paid on benefits such as official cars and accommodation, it has emerged. Whitehall departments are picking up tax charges related to perks for a number of senior officials, when this would often be paid by employees themselves in the private sector.
The beneficiaries include Sir Jeremy Heywood, the Cabinet secretary, for his official car, Sir David Nicholson, the head of NHS England, for use of a car, accommodation and travel, and Phillippa Williamson, the former head of the Serious Fraud Office, for her commute, according to the Telegraph.
In the case of Heywood, the Cabinet Office confirmed his tax bill is paid for the car he uses to travel between Westminster and his home for official business, which is shared with another civil servant.
According to Cabinet Office accounts, use of the car has cost taxpayers more than £170,000 over two years, with an estimated tax bill for the benefit of more than £49,000.
I should be angry. Seething, ranting and raving at the sheer hypocrisy and abuse that is going on. But, oddly enough, I am remarkably calm. You see, because government is nothing more than a glorified protection racket run by charlatans, crooks and thieves operating in a cocoon of corruption, this news isn’t news to me at all. It is entirely logical and predictable. That they are ripping us off while holding a gun to our heads and demanding ever more of our hard-earned to keep them in the manner to which they have become accustomed, is just business as usual. No, I didn’t know they were doing this, but if you asked me to predict that they were doing something along these lines, I would have said yes. They are scum. Evil criminal scum and anyone who expects honesty from evil criminal scum has a screw loose.
If they had to pay tax on the perks like we plebs, they’d just increase their salaries to make up the difference. It’s not as though they earn money in the private sector.
In effect, you could argue that they are doing us a tiny favour by cutting down on the paperwork required to generate the extra tax code….
So… I presume the “Government” are no longer on your christmas-card list?
They never were.
No, doesn’t surpise me one bit either.
Monkey see monkey do, the elected (Christ knows why) troughers have had their grubby mitts in the till long enough, the unelected gravy gobblers only getting their share in before the public teat runs dry.