Racist Abuse at HMRC
Staff are believed to have tampered with computer records to ensure ethnic minorities did not receive benefits they were entitled to…
Following an internal investigation, seven Revenue and Customs staff have been sacked for deliberately under-paying benefits to ethnic minorities. Two others are understood to have resigned over the scandal which took place at a contact centre based at Dorchester House, close to the city centre in Belfast.
BBC: Dave Hartnett, permanent secretary for tax at HMRC, said the department operates a zero-tolerance policy on racial discrimination.
“The vast majority of our people are entirely professional and one of the ways we support that professionalism is by taking decisive action against the tiny minority who let us all down by falling far short of those standards,” he said.
