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"“HMRC and I personally regret any anxiety that customers have suffered, and I will come to each of the points that you have made in terms of how many people have the right code and paid the right amount of tax in the totality of the system.”"
"“The key big building blocks for this include the reconciliation exercise that we are going through at the moment, which was well covered in the media, where we have many more people getting refunds of tax overpaid than we have, demonstrating a commitment to fairness alongside enforcement.”"
"We serve everybody. We don't have a choice about who we serve."
"“I think HMRC is quite disadvantaged because we don’t have a choice about who we serve. We have to serve 30 million taxpayers and that’s what makes us different from private businesses.”"
"“Be glad for what you have, not sad for what you have not.”"
"“We feel deeply, deeply sorry for the distress that we have caused to many customers in bringing personal tax records up to date, and particularly vulnerable customers. I think one of the big groups in each of those years has been pensioners. We have been working through each of these years with ministers and seeking counsel on how we can ameliorate the impact of all of that.”"
"“Our staff are our greatest asset, and we need to be open and honest and really listen to their views on how we can succeed. Staff management is the most challenging task facing the civil service at present.”"
Young though he was, his radiant energy produced such an impression of absolute reliability that Hedgewar made him the first sarkaryavah, or general secretary, of the RSS.
- Gopal Mukund Huddar
Largely because of the influence of communists in London, Huddar's conversion into an enthusiastic supporter of the fight against fascism was quick and smooth. The ease with which he crossed from one worldview to another betrays the fact that he had not properly understood the world he had grown in.
Huddar would have been 101 now had he been alive. But then centenaries are not celebrated only to register how old so and so would have been and when. They are usually celebrated to explore how much poorer our lives are without them. Maharashtrian public life is poorer without him. It is poorer for not having made the effort to recall an extraordinary life.
I regret I was not there to listen to Balaji Huddar's speech [...] No matter how many times you listen to him, his speeches are so delightful that you feel like listening to them again and again.
By the time he came out of Franco's prison, Huddar had relinquished many of his old ideas. He displayed a worldview completely different from that of the RSS, even though he continued to remain deferential to Hedgewar and maintained a personal relationship with him.