Another alarming and disturbing report of the government steamroller which is flattening our rights comes in an article this morning from Spyblog, picking up from a report in the Sunday Times. 

TAX inspectors are to be given new powers allowing them to tap taxpayers’ telephones and plant bugs inside their homes and offices. 

Mark Fairhurst, head of forensics at accountants PKF, said: “HMRC claims it will use the new powers proportionately, but our experience suggests its officers often take an unnecessarily heavy-handed approach with some taxpayers who are eventually proven innocent.”

That basically means you and me, and like every other order slipped into legislation, these powers were granted to HMRC using a Statutory Instrument.   Backdoor government.