Oi JY, I'll not have a bad word said about Totnes.
Any more talk like that and I'll have to cancel my hunt tomorrow so I can visit my white witch and get a hex put on you. 😉
Going back to what Bob said HMRC, having dealt with them while running a business, probably rank as the most grossly incompetent organisation in the country. Have you seem the film Brazil? It's a bit like that, I imagine. Once you enter their labyrinthine system you could spend literally days, being passed from pillar to post, speaking to endless people, in innumerate different offices and departments, and still be not a step nearer to resolving a problem.
I bet the highly paid tax lawyers of Starbucks et al, must be hooting with derision as they imagine these ****-wits trying to unravel their massively complex affairs!
Once you enter their labyrinthine system you could spend literally days, being passed from pillar to post, speaking to endless people, in innumerate different offices and departments, and still be not a step nearer to resolving a problem.
no that's just rebates.
if you owe them money, (and you're not a huge multinational with friends in high places) their efficiency is second to none.
You're not wrong there! We've actually knowingly overpaid tax as we just gave up trying to resolve disputes on plucked-out-of-the-air estimated tax bills, duplicated from 3 different offices, all providing wildly different guesstimates! as when you factored in the time it took to (not) resolve the issue, it wasn't worth either your time, or the stress
I imagine we're not alone in that! The whole process is utterly soul destroying in a thoroughly Kafka-esque way
Jambalaya, where exactly do you get the boasting about the UK from? I have failed to find it in any of their latest investor relations presentations or the annual report. Indeed the latest one talks about how the EMEA turnaround has only just begun with pretty poor performance?
I was having a very relevant conversation with owner of a small bike shop in Edinburgh a wee while back when news broke that Evans were opening a branch in town. I asked if he was worried this might put him out of business. His reply was that it would actually be a benefit as the size of the potential market would increase and he would target and service customers in a way that Evans couldn't.
Yeah, you never get a reach round in Evans.
