Tax people

Sitting on my desk just now I have two pieces of mail from the Tax Office; they know who I work for, the have my name slightly wrong, and the National Insurance number they cite is completely off the wall.

That hasn’t stopped them telling me to ‘send the letter back’ to them as if there were only one letter from them, being utterly unhelpful when I call them because, of course, I get through to a call centre where the people have no power to interrogate or amend real tax records.

So I’m left knowing quite a lot about the person to whom they think they’re sending letters. National Insurance number, full name, date of birth, family circumstances.

Would you trust these people with a National Identity card?