Yeah why not and if we can't pay you what you think we owe you, you could hang us or put our heads on spikes on a bridge in london to make a spectacle of people that tried to survive the wrath of having to live in the uk!

john, london,

Investigations no doubt ,will probably be of a high percentage of hard working individuals, who will be pressurised and at the same time incurring costly accountancy fees .We are experiencing a difficult time at present maintaining our heads above water without these bullying tactics.

brian Hill, west mids, uk

"Last year the Revenue admitted that it paid £100,000 for the personal banking records of up to 100 Britons that had been stolen from a Liechtenstein bank."

Come again? Surely this information should be treated as evidence unfairly obtained and would therefore be inadmissible in court.

Chris, Christchurch, NZ

So It's going to be unusual & hence worhy of investigation if you turnover decreases and your costs increase.

Obviously during the mother of all recessions, shortly after Gas & Electricity prices have soared exponentially this won't happen wil it ? MMMM

Steve, Cramlington, U.K.

Totally concur with PeterFieldman. I'd go further and say "flat tax". Possibly 24%, for every income earning adult. This would do away with tax avoidance schemes as it is fair. OK, less accountants but hey, hooray!? Everyone contributing the same percentage as is teneted in our Christian Bible.

George, London,

I think many of the buy to let speculators should be imprisoned and bankrupted. They have exploited first time buyers and vulnerable people. They are not business people, they don't generate wealth, they just exploit hard working people. I am pleased they are now in such financial trouble.

Thomas Howell, London, UK

Ways to increase tax revenues:
1: Eliminate tax havens as proposed by Barack Obama in his bill "Stop Tax Havens Abuse Act".
2: Outlaw all tax avoidance schemes and special regimes.
3: This would allow for a lower rate of tax for all at say 10%
simpler and thereby removing incentive to cheat

peterfieldman, paris, france

Last year HMRC sent eight £100 penalties that were an error that cost money to appeal all we received was a letter of apology - no compensation but if you make the simplest of errors it is a £100 every time, this is on top of 60 hour working weeks and fighting to find work in this climate.

Simon, maidenhead, berks

Atkin V Minors - how sweet your advice! Yes- this is war. Let us all stop cowering and stand up for justice and right. Let's have a tax strike to bring the useless government down.

David Mann, Chester, UK

HMRC should put its own house in order before "targetting" innocent taxpayers. Now a French resident and taxpayer, I have been struggling for months now to get proper coding on my UK based pension and to get back tax overpaid. HMRC generally does not use e-mail and takes weeks to reply to letters.

david, Ligneyrac, France

I just hope the taxman catches all these tax cheats and gets really tough with them.Loopholes for the rich and a high percentage of gross pay taxed for low income earners.

philip dunn, york, north yorkshire

HM Revenue and Customs is in the middle of getting rid of thousands of employees , just who is going to do all this investigative work ?

Mark, Hull,

Sounds as if taxi drivers have missed their calling......an MP.

ronnie, Bridego Bridge, Uk

Why mess around? just put up more speed cameras.

ronnie, Bridego Bridge, Uk

Just leave the pox ridden bankrupt corrupt country.... It's a joke place now,scroungers,serial single mothers and self interested politicos..

keith rogers, arapkoy, cyprus

What nice service the HMRC gives to the public, with their bully tactics. It's time that these mistaken prone oganizations are kept in better check

Colin A, Bath, uk

As retired people who have worked very hard and have enough (or did have) cash in the bank to live out our lives (30 years more?) one insistence is that the interest earned, now a pathetic 3% p a, must have a deduction made for the rate of inflation before being assessed for tax.

B J Deller, Marbella, Spain

Inland revenue could target the married Taxi drivers with children who work part-time and earn £60 abd claim working tax credit and child tax credit. Yet they work full- time and boast £1200 a week.
One of the IR checks is mileage/speedometer which can be altered to show low mileage.

Jim, Sheffield, UK

Further the sleazy accountant s are also in on the act as they offer to provide false wage slips and receipts.

Time for Inland revenue to plug the giant leaking holes in its system.

Can thousands of taxi drivers all be earning £60 per week?

Jim, Sheffield, UK

The banks were bailed out by the tax payer. What do you expect from this pathetic governemnt which is hell bent on bankrupting this country. The policy of reckless borrowing and making the nation suffer is enterring its final stages. Soon all of us will be jobless and there will be no taxpaayer.

farrukh, london, uk

Mr Brown could start chucking all the foreign prisoners out of the UK and all the undesirables out of the country and off benefits. Now that would save a few quid!!!

Mark, Leeds,

This is all nonsense and subterfuge by HMRC. The computers may flag them up but they have no staff to pursue them....so they bluff and hope it scares more into paying.

Chris Jones, London, UK

“If you have switched bank accounts in the last year..."

That's a laugh. If you were unlucky enough to use a bank that went out of business due to this government's fecklessness, that selfsame government will suspect YOU of irregularities?

Tom Welsh, Basingstoke,

Last year the Revenue kindly allocated my wife's bank account to my name and accused me of evasion.......so much for their "system"

Robin, Ilford, UK

DO arm yourself to the teeth against state sponsored theft from the most immoral institution on the planet.

DO fight back against illegal retrospective re-interpretation of long standing tax law and practice at every opportunity.

DON'T give one iota of leeway to these goons, this is war!

Atkin V Minors, Swindon, UK

The poor old buy -to-let speculators are coining it in as long as you took tracker mortgages - I am happy to pay more tax prior to these interest rate drops,I was making moderate amounts before - now I am just coining it in. So thanks for your simpathy Denis but times are better than ever yesssss

Andy, Sunderland, England

Should they not ensure that their system does not crash and is able to cope with 204,000 or more who have every right to post their returns on the last day?

tris, Dundee, Scotland

DO's and DON'T's for the revenue.
DO look into MP's expenses.
DON'T assume that exenses they claim are non taxable.

Jb, Carcassonne, France

Oh dear, the poor old buy-to-let speculators. How sad.

denis, belfast, uk