‘Resource-stretched’ HMRC may not be able to answer the phone, thought at least it is spending enough of our cash on “diversity, inclusion, health and wellbeing” officers. A Freedom of Information request dispatched by Guido reveals that our tax overlords are spending a total of £4,495,726 of taxpayer cash on woke positions featuring words ranging from “diversity” and “inclusion” to “climate“, “wellbeing“, and “race“. Guido’s not quite sure how the below roles contribute to the collection of tax:

• Culture Impacting and Equalities Support
• Senior Consultant for Equality Diversity
• Values & Culture Advocate Lead
• Wellbeing Project Co-ordinator
• Culture Impacting and Equalities Support

Rachel Reeves wants to hire 5,000 new HMRC tax inspectors to close the theoretical “tax gap“. If politicians want to spend more of our cash on inspectors maybe they should institute a ‘one out, one in’ policy…