Seriously?
February 28, 2013I mean, seriously, Daily Mail?
HMRC recruits well-paid investigators and inspectors — often from universities or accountancy firms.
It has also launched a so-called tax academy to train inspectors.
Yes, a sinister cadre of… whisper it… people who might know what they’re talking about! Why, I bet some of them even wear glasses… closet intellectuals, the lot of them.
Then the dark forces at work in HMRC even – prepare to gasp in horror – train them to do their jobs! In a tax academy, no less. (As opposed, presumably, to a plumbing apprenticeship? Or a PhD in rocket sciences?)
I’m tempted to make a sarcastic comment about, oh, I don’t know, a “so called” newspaper. But that would be petty.
tiintax 
Obviously things have been upgraded since I did my training … no academy then … just a training centre. How mundane is that . And I don’t recall being well paid for what I did.I feel cheated!