{"id":5020,"date":"2004-05-20T14:38:54","date_gmt":"2004-05-20T13:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grayblog.co.uk\/?p=5020"},"modified":"2004-05-20T14:38:54","modified_gmt":"2004-05-20T13:38:54","slug":"bloody-useless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/2004\/05\/20\/bloody-useless\/","title":{"rendered":"Bloody useless"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.inlandrevenue.gov.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Inland Revenue\">Inland Revenue<\/a> has been actively promoting their online filing services for employers&#8217; PAYE. Let me list my complaints:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>if you want to use the service, you must register in advance. They then send your user ID and activation password to you <b>by post<\/b> &quot;for security&quot;. Given that there are (I think) a million letters going astray each week, and that they do not use registered or recorded delivery, then I think that this is likely to be as secure as your average cardboard box.<\/li>\n<li>when you actually come to use the service, you are frequently met with &quot;service unavailable&quot; messages.<\/li>\n<li>once you finally do manage to get the service to work, the user ID issued to me, which I noted down carefully, and which matches the user ID confirmation letter that I got through the post, are not recognised by the system. Without this, you can&#8217;t do anything.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to point out that, overall, I find the Inland Revenue&#8217;s online filing system to be <b>total and utter crap<\/b>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Inland Revenue has been actively promoting their online filing services for employers&#8217; PAYE. Let me list my complaints: if you want to use the service, you must register in advance. They then send your user ID and activation password to you by post &quot;for security&quot;. Given that there are (I think) a million letters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/grayblog.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}