Selling off our tax records to private companies

wyatt1 Tue May 13, 2014 1:55 pm

Have you heard about the latest plans for a government sell-off? HMRC are considering selling off our tax records to private companies. Our incomes, the amount of tax we pay, and our tax histories could be sold to the highest bidder.

Back in February, hundreds of thousands of us spoke out against the government’s plans to sell off our medical data - and we helped to get the plans paused for 6 months.

We can do the same with the tax data sell-off, but we need to make the outcry huge. I’ve signed a petition to HMRC which has almost hit 250,000 signatures. 38 Degrees members are handing it in to HMRC’s offices in less than two days’ time, on Wednesday morning.

Can you add your name before then to make sure that we make as big a splash as possible? Click here to sign the petition now:
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/hmrc-petition