Gamekeeper Turned Poacher...

[Gromit]

Or Poacher all along?

Dave Hartnett, retiring head of HMRC is to join Deloitte, a City firm who advise Starbucks on Tax Avoidance. The much criticised Hartnett has been in the news quite a bit in his tenure at HMRC and has faced a grilling from the auditors on the Public Accounts Committee over his 'sweetheart' deals with multinational companies.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/10083254/Former-Revenue-boss-lands-tax-advice-job-at-Deloitte.html#disqus_thread

From Wikipedia:
// Vodafone's alleged tax evasion of up to £6 billion, illustrated in a series of articles in Private Eye. These articles alleged preferential treatment of Vodafone due to personal connections between Hartnett and John Connors, Vodafone's head of tax, a former colleague at HMRC.

In May 2011 Private Eye alleged Hartnett personally "shook hands" on a deal over a long-running tax avoidance dispute with Goldman Sachs dating back to 2002, without consulting HMRC lawyers, letting the US bank off around £10m in interest. Complaints from HMRC informants that Hartnett personally intervened in settlement cases and agreed to "sweetheart deals" with no explanation or consultation with lawyers have also been published. In October 2011, The Guardian published leaked papers regarding the deal.

Hartnett was named by City University London in July 2010 as the most "wined and dined" civil servant in Britain, having been treated to corporate hospitality 107 times over a period of three years.

He was reported as having claimed £10,000 in expenses in 9 months. //

Am I alone in thinking all of this is highly dubious? 

[Svejk]

No you're not. There's a lot of this kind of crap going on and its a disgrace.

[mikey4444]

You couldn't make stuff like this up if you tried.

[Octavius]

I thought he joined HSBC in January?

[Gromit]

He was appointed to a Financial Governance Committee at HSBC in January after the Libor Scandal investigation in the US.

He has retired from HMRC on a £1.7million pension pot. The Deloitt job is for one day a week.

[jno]

not a good look, is it.

[youngmafbog]

They all pee in the same pot at tge end of the day.

[beegeebee]

And, do you really think his replacement, Lin Homer will be any better. She has been an alleged failure, at every job she has held. One would guess problems will continue and nothing of substance will be done to bring H.M.R.C. into the 21st Century