They just can't help it

This Labour Government just cannot help covering up their mistakes, today I read in the Telegraph that "Tens of thousands of householders could have been paying too much council tax for years in a "scandal" that ministers attempted to cover up...Ministers and officials have known since at least 2005 that many homes were placed in the wrong tax bands, with householders paying more than they should. It is claimed that the miscalculations could have affected up to 400,000 homes - and it is still not known how far back the over-payments go.

Although the errors were relatively simple and could have been corrected painlessly, ministers chose to keep the matter secret.

Whitehall documents show that the Government concealed the mistakes, concerned that local authorities would have to make huge rebate payments and fearful of the "adverse press coverage" the controversy would generate."


For more about the incompetence way that the cover-up was handled, read the Telegraph article. "Within the past few days, ministers finally published a report of a key Whitehall meeting of the Council Tax Revaluation Board in November 2005, shortly after the decision to postpone the revaluation had been taken. The report was published with key sections blacked out, but, in an embarrassing blunder, the supposedly secret sections of text were still legible.

One key passage, which ministers tried to hide, shows that homes were found to be in the wrong band but that officials were too worried to admit the mistake."



This Labour Government has got to go before their incompetence and lieing move even further out of control.