The Uncivil Servants Memoirs of a Canada Revenue Agency Tax Collector
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Publisher Description
To make things clear, I was not a member of the union, Dino was spreading untrue rumours about my sexuality, I had lied to the Chief of Collections, I had made the Chief of Collections subordinate, my boss’s boss, swallow a face full of clay in front of his subordinates and I was a stamp collector.
I was just zooming down the office pecking order from unknown to unpopular to plague-ridden.
And how did I figure this out?
Well, after yet another office reorganization I was moved from Charlie Hardiman’s team to Dave Falcon’s team. Where I was assigned to the second worst inventory in collections – numbered companies.
The very worst collection inventories belonged to the Sundry Team.
Customer Reviews
Alan Baggett - Hero
Alan Baggett has a great sense of humour and tells stories about the petty third string chronic underachievers that have too much power and not enough decency or sense for the positions they hold.
The insight Alan Baggett brings to a mysterious faceless unsympathetic monster is long overdue. Baggett points out that not all CRA agents are bad, but unfortunately, too many of those who were passed up for hall monitor, school crossing guard, teacher's pet and the news paper route landed in a position of authority with a determination to make the world take notice that now they are really a somebody after all.
Sadly, it is evident many in the agency operate without compassion and outside the law. It is an encouragement to understand the behind the scenes activities and realise that just because an agent says something, it isn't necessarily right or even lawful. Baggett's writings, especially the Tax Collector's Bible are critical to the sanity of the average tax payer, stymied by an out of control bureaucracy.