Sign the Stop the Staff Cuts petition

The Taxation petition in protest against thousands of planned redundancies at HMRC is now live on the official website of 10 Downing Street: http://petitions.pm.gov.uk/hmrc-staffcuts/

We ask all readers to back our Stop the Staff Cuts campaign by clicking on the above link and then adding their names to the online document (see below for the wording).

Regular updates on our push to persuade the Government to reconsider its plans for the Revenue are featured on this site and can also be followed in Taxation's weekly magazine and on the title's new weblog at www.taxation-magazine.blogspot.com

Thanks for your support.

Stop the Staff Cuts petition in full:

'Some 12 500 HM Revenue & Customs jobs have been cut since it was created by the merger of the Inland Revenue and Revenue & Customs. A further 12 500 jobs are now at risk for 2008-11. This has already had a serious impact on...