Independent Police Complaints Commission: My complaint to the IPCC about the alleged non-referral of my complaint against HM Revenue and Customs for serious misconduct (WITH UPDATE 6/9/2017)

Re: Internet cuts since 26 May 2017

From my earlier blog post's Update 6 September (11.15am):

"And it's not just Facebook blocks, blocks on public access to our Church and State website and the daily targeting to fluctuating degrees of category pages throughout the site that Declan and I are dealing with these days. We have also been dealing with Internet cuts since 26 May. See my blog post of 21 June, Internet cuts: We pay £65 per month for BT Infinity but feel we are in a race against time to stay online (WITH UPDATE 6/9/2017 RE: 155th Internet cut since 26 May 2017)."

6 September (11.20am): 155 internet cuts since 26 May 2017.* We had to suspend work on our Church and State website on 15 June after 4 internet cuts in one night. With an all-time record breaking 7 cuts in one day by 4pm on 29 August; 58 cuts last month; 10 cuts last week; 6 cuts this week; 4 cuts yesterday; none since midnight today (as of 6 September at 11.20am).

1. 143rd 29 August 2017, 8.42am
2. 144th 29 August 2017, 9.54am
3. 145th 29 August 2017, 10.52am
4. 146th 29 August 2017, 11.38am
5. 147th 29 August 2017, 12.02pm
6. 148th 29 August 2017, 12.47pm
7. 149th 29 August 2017, 3.10pm
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8. 150th 4 September 2017, 12.14pm
9. 151st 4 September 2017, 4.38pm
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10. 152nd 5 September 2017, 11.53am
11. 153rd 5 September 2017, 1.48pm
12. 154th 5 September 2017, 4.35pm
13. 155th 5 September 2017, 9.32pm

* 12 out of the first 18 internet cuts were within the first four days of a BT engineer's visit on 12 June. It is a matter of written record that this engineer "securely fitted a brand new master socket to another location on the same wall. He also carried out a comprehensive line test and could not find a problem with [our] line".

The War on Free Expression

HMRC Customer Service Manager for PAYE and Self Assessment: "We previously asked you to complete Self Assessment tax returns because you told us that you would receive self-employed income. However, your 2015-16 return only included income of £2,967 from Network for Church Monitoring and as you had told us that this was PAYE income, we have closed your Self Assessment record" [emphasis added].

In a blog post last November I asked if it would take the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) to protect our address with Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC); see my blog post of 29 November 2016, Will it take the Independent Police Complaints Commission to protect our address with HM Revenue and Customs? (WITH UPDATE 22/12/2016). Little did Declan and I know at the time that it was our residential address that was insecure (as opposed to our company contact details). On 12 August I complained to the IPCC about serious misconduct by HMRC staff involving criminal or near criminal behaviour. I not only complained about HMRC Pay As You Earn and Self Assessment updating my address on 11 July without my permission (and the detrimental effect this may have on Declan and myself in terms of the possible suspension of our Housing Benefit), but also their subsequent closure of my Self Assessment account based upon fabricated hearsay evidence which no independent judiciary would accept. This morning I copied IPCC Chief Executive Lesley Longstone into this complaint to the IPCC Internal Investigations Unit about what HMRC Internal Governance and Civil Investigations allege was the non-referral by the IPCC of my completed IPCC complaint form:

For the attention of Lesley Longstone, Chief Executive, Independent Police Complaints Commission

Internal Investigations Unit
Independent Police Complaints Commission

Address removed for email


30 August 2017

Tax reference: [number removed]

Dear Sir/Madam,

Please find attached the word version of my completed Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) complaint form dated 12 August 2017.

The IPCC acknowledged my complaint on 12 August 2017, stating that it had been sent to the appropriate authority I selected in the online complaint form (namely, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs) for HMRC Internal Governance and Civil Investigations to consider.

Please find attached a snapshot of the IPCC's online acknowledgement.

On 23 August 2017, HMRC Internal Governance and Civil Investigations told me that they never received my IPCC complaint form. Please could you tell me the reason why.

On 24 August 2017, I sent the word version of my completed IPCC complaint form to HMRC Internal Governance and Civil Investigations (at referrals.ig@hmrc.gsi.gov.uk). HMRC Ministerial Correspondence Team have acknowledged receipt of my correspondence.

Please would you acknowledge receipt of this email by reply.

Yours faithfully,

Maria Dolores Heavey
NINO: [number removed]

UPDATE 6 September (11.25am): Not so much as an auto reply from the IPCC! But on 30 August Declan was assured by the IPCC over the telephone that they had received my email above. On 30 August we also discovered that the above-mentioned HMRC blog post last November had been vandalised; see my previous blog post, My blog post about the difficulties we experienced last year with Her Majesty Revenue and Customs has been vandalised (WITH UPDATE: 30/8/2017). I have been blogging HMRC week in week out for two months. Only last Friday we were concerned that this entire blog was at risk; see my blog post of 26 August, Is this letter from Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs so outrageous that it has now put this entire N4CM blog at risk? (WITH DOUBLE UPDATE 30/8/2017).

***

We are well familiar with the IPCC. For example, Declan complained to the IPCC about the police investigation into the removal of our flat door in 2012. It was the IPCC's finding on that occasion that since our then landlady had subsequently signed an undertaking to the County Court promising not to harass us, there was no requirement for the Metropolitan Police Service to take further action.

Re: Removal of our flat door

Paragraph 23(ii) of Declan's updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

23(ii) On 21 August 2012, Ms McKenzie signed an undertaking to the County Court promising not to harass the Applicant and his wife following her builder's removal of the door to their flat (see Annex 9, p. 31). The Independent Police Complaints Commission later upheld the Applicant's appeal against the police investigation of the incident "on information only", stating that "no further action is required by the force in this instance".

From My Picks:

9 June: Ministry of Justice: Complaint to the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice against the County Court at Central London, Royal Courts of Justice (WITH UPDATE - Day 13 21/6/2017)

'Let me recommend an important web site churchandstate.org.uk. Operating out of London this well-designed and exciting web site covers church-state, population, climate change and other issues. Check it out.' - Edd Doerr, President, Americans for Religious Liberty

TinyPic's unprecedented 19-day block has been lifted. At last I can publish the now-infamous letter of 4 August 2017 from HM Revenue and Customs

Re: Internet cuts since 26 May 2017

From my earlier blog post's Update 21 August (8.03pm):

"And it's not just Facebook blocks, blocks on public access to our Church and State website and the daily targeting to fluctuating degrees of category pages throughout the site that Declan and I are dealing with these days. We have also been dealing with Internet cuts since 26 May. See my blog post of 21 June, Internet cuts: We pay £65 per month for BT Infinity but feel we are in a race against time to stay online (WITH UPDATE 21/8/2017 RE: 131st Internet cut since 26 May 2017)."

30 August (8.35am): 149 internet cuts since 26 May 2017.* We had to suspend work on our Church and State website on 15 June after 4 internet cuts in one night. With an all-time record breaking 7 cuts in one day by 4pm yesterday afternoon; 56 blocks last month; 58 blocks this month; 8 blocks last week; 10 blocks this week; none since midnight today (as of 30 August at 8.35am).

1. 140th 28 August 2017, 11.38am
2. 141st 28 August 2017, 3.46pm
3. 142nd 28 August 2017, 7.55pm
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4. 143rd 29 August 2017, 8.42am
5. 144th 29 August 2017, 9.54am
6. 145th 29 August 2017, 10.52am
7. 146th 29 August 2017, 11.38am
8. 147th 29 August 2017, 12.02pm
9. 148th 29 August 2017, 12.47pm
10. 149th 29 August 2017, 3.10pm

* 12 out of the first 18 internet cuts were within the first four days of a BT engineer's visit on 12 June. It is a matter of written record that this engineer "securely fitted a brand new master socket to another location on the same wall. He also carried out a comprehensive line test and could not find a problem with [our] line".

The War on Free Expression

26 August: Is this letter from Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs so outrageous that it has now put this entire N4CM blog at risk? (WITH DOUBLE UPDATE 30/8/2017)

Is this letter from Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs so outrageous that it has now put this entire N4CM blog at risk? (WITH DOUBLE UPDATE 30/8/2017)

Re: Internet cuts since 26 May 2017

From my previous blog post's Update 21 August (8.03pm):

"And it's not just Facebook blocks, blocks on public access to our Church and State website and the daily targeting to fluctuating degrees of category pages throughout the site that Declan and I are dealing with these days. We have also been dealing with Internet cuts since 26 May. See my blog post of 21 June, Internet cuts: We pay £65 per month for BT Infinity but feel we are in a race against time to stay online (WITH UPDATE 21/8/2017 RE: 131st Internet cut since 26 May 2017)."

30 August (8.35am): 149 internet cuts since 26 May 2017.* We had to suspend work on our Church and State website on 15 June after 4 internet cuts in one night. With an all-time record breaking 7 cuts in one day by 4pm yesterday afternoon; 56 blocks last month; 58 blocks this month; 8 blocks last week; 10 blocks this week; none since midnight today (as of 30 August at 8.35am).

1. 140th 28 August 2017, 11.38am
2. 141st 28 August 2017, 3.46pm
3. 142nd 28 August 2017, 7.55pm
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4. 143rd 29 August 2017, 8.42am
5. 144th 29 August 2017, 9.54am
6. 145th 29 August 2017, 10.52am
7. 146th 29 August 2017, 11.38am
8. 147th 29 August 2017, 12.02pm
9. 148th 29 August 2017, 12.47pm
10. 149th 29 August 2017, 3.10pm

* 12 out of the first 18 internet cuts were within the first four days of a BT engineer's visit on 12 June. It is a matter of written record that this engineer "securely fitted a brand new master socket to another location on the same wall. He also carried out a comprehensive line test and could not find a problem with [our] line".

The War on Free Expression

HMRC Customer Service Manager for PAYE and Self Assessment: "We previously asked you to complete Self Assessment tax returns because you told us that you would receive self-employed income. However, your 2015-16 return only included income of £2,967 from Network for Church Monitoring and as you had told us that this was PAYE income, we have closed your Self Assessment record" [emphasis added].

It is our single indisputable narrative going forward that Declan and I are being harassed even by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC). This morning I received a letter from HMRC Pay As You Earn (PAYE) and Self Assessment dated 21 August that was no more than a second version of a letter dated 4 August that I received from them on 12 August. I complained later on 12 August to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) about serious misconduct by HMRC staff involving criminal or near criminal behaviour. I not only complained about HMRC PAYE & SA updating my address on 11 July without my permission, but also their subsequent closure of my SA account based upon fabricated hearsay evidence which no independent judiciary would accept. If HMRC Internal Governance and Civil Investigations do not write to me, or write to me to say my complaint has not been recorded, I have a right of appeal to the IPCC against the non-recording of my complaint. I still cannot publish HMRC's letter of 4 August because since I received it on 12 August, I haven't been able to upload images or videos to TinyPic. This now raises the question of how secure images and videos throughout this entire blog can be. The following is the text of this now-infamous HMRC letter of 4 August:

4 August 2017

Dear Mrs Heavey

Thank you for your telephone call of 3 August 2017.

I am sorry we closed your Self Assessment account and for the concern, we have caused you and Mr Heavey.

I spoke with Mr Heavey on 3 August 2017. I confirmed we have reopened your SA account and updated our records to show that you are not Self Employed.

We will not to (sic) update your address unless we receive written confirmation from you.

If you tell other government departments about a change to your address, our systems will automatically update your records.

If you have any further enquiries regarding the above, please write to at (sic) the above address or call me on 03000 513264. I will be happy to help.

Yours sincerely

Mr D Buchanan
Customer Service Adviser

Complaint about serious staff misconduct involving criminal or near criminal behaviour overseen by the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

12 August 2017

This morning I received the attached letter dated 4 August 2017 from HMRC PAYE & Self Assessment. Please treat this complaint as a complaint about serious misconduct by HMRC staff involving criminal or near criminal behaviour.

I wish to complain about the updating of my address by HMRC PAYE & SA on 11 July 2017, which was done without my authority. By email dated 9 July 2017, I specifically informed HMRC PAYE & SA that my address had not changed and that such an update may result in the suspension of my husband's Housing Benefit. Nonetheless, HMRC PAYE & SA updated my address against my expressed wishes and with no regard for the detrimental effect this may have on myself and my husband.

I also wish to complain about the then subsequent closure of my Self Assessment account by HMRC PAYE & SA on the grounds that I told them I was self-employed. I have never told HMRC that I am self-employed. The closure of my SA account could only, therefore, have been based on fabricated hearsay evidence which no independent judiciary would accept. HMRC PAYE & SA have reopened my SA account and updated their records to show that I am not self-employed, but they have not provided any evidence to support the closure of my SA account in the first instance.

I am looking for HMRC Professional Standards to uphold this complaint about serious misconduct by HMRC staff involving criminal or near criminal behaviour.

We are well familiar with the IPCC. For example, Declan complained to the IPCC about the police investigation into the removal of our flat door in 2012. It was the IPCC's finding on that occasion that since our then landlady had subsequently signed an undertaking to the County Court promising not to harass us, there was no requirement for the Metropolitan Police Service to take further action.

Re: Removal of our flat door

Paragraph 23(ii) of Declan's updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

23(ii) On 21 August 2012, Ms McKenzie signed an undertaking to the County Court promising not to harass the Applicant and his wife following her builder's removal of the door to their flat (see Annex 9, p. 31). The Independent Police Complaints Commission later upheld the Applicant's appeal against the police investigation of the incident "on information only", stating that "no further action is required by the force in this instance".

UPDATE 30 August (8.37am): HMRC Internal Governance and Civil Investigations have not responded to my complaint, which the IPCC say they forwarded to them on 12 August (i.e. 13 working days ago). I also still cannot publish HMRC's letter of 4 August that I received on 12 August; this constitutes an unprecedented 19-day block from TinyPic to date. And I have not received a response from TinyPic to this report of mine on 12 August:

12 August 2017

Dear TinyPic,

I cannot upload any images to the TinyPic website on any of four laptops. I run Windows 7 and 10.

When I try to upload an image all I get is "This image or video has been moved or deleted". Please see the attached screenshot.

Thank you in advance for your assistance in this matter.

Regards,
Lola Heavey

UPDATE 30 August (9.18am): TinyPic's 19-day block has been lifted! They have lifted this unprecedented block without responding to my report above. I have just published the now-infamous HMRC letter of 4 August; see my newer blog post this morning, TinyPic's unprecedented 19-day block has been lifted. At last I can publish the now-infamous letter of 4 August 2017 from HM Revenue and Customs.



From My Picks:

9 June: Ministry of Justice: Complaint to the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice against the County Court at Central London, Royal Courts of Justice (WITH UPDATE - Day 13 21/6/2017)

'Let me recommend an important web site churchandstate.org.uk. Operating out of London this well-designed and exciting web site covers church-state, population, climate change and other issues. Check it out.' Edd Doerr, President, Americans for Religious Liberty

Facebook's 22nd block against our Church and State website since 1 December 2015 (WITH UPDATE 6/9/2017)

Facebook (19.8.2017)

Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) still have not recorded my complaint about serious misconduct by HMRC staff involving criminal or near criminal behaviour, which the Independent Police Complaints Commission say they sent to them on 12 August. I not only complained about HMRC Pay As You Earn and Self Assessment updating my address on 11 July without my permission (and the detrimental effect this may have on Declan and myself in terms of the possible suspension of our Housing Benefit), but also their subsequent closure of my Self Assessment account based upon fabricated hearsay evidence which no independent judiciary would accept; see my previous blog post, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs have refused to record my complaint about serious staff misconduct which was sent to them by the Independent Police Complaints Commission? (WITH UPDATE 19/8/2017). Now we're dealing with Facebook's 22nd block against our Church and State website since 1 December 2015, to boot. Basically, Facebook is now - and for the first time ever - calling me a spammer and treating all my posts to groups as spam. This is my appeal this afternoon against this unprecedented and unfounded attack:

For the attention of Mark Zuckerberg, Chairman, Chief Executive and Co-Founder of Facebook

20 August 2017

Dear Facebook,

I wish to appeal your decision last night to stop me from posting to groups, and this for an undisclosed period of time. I am being wrongly accused of spamming. For example, last night Facebook removed the three articles I tried posting to groups, stating: "We removed this post because it looks like spam to us." This block remains ongoing. Please see the screenshot attached.

1. "The Theory of Individual Selection and Its Flaws" at http://churchandstate.org.uk/2017/08/the-theory-of-individual-selection-and-its-flaws/
2. "Command Ethics or Divine Command Ethics?" at http://churchandstate.org.uk/2017/08/command-ethics-or-divine-command-ethics/
3. "The False Reality - Why Christianity Requires Ignorance" at http://churchandstate.org.uk/2017/07/the-false-reality-why-christianity-requires-ignorance/

The first article is an excerpt from Howard Bloom's book, "The Lucifer Principle". Mr. Bloom has been called "next in a lineage of seminal thinkers that includes Newton, Darwin, Einstein, [and] Freud" by Britain's Channel4 TV. The second article is an excerpt from Prof. Paul Cliteur's book, "The Secular Outlook". Prof. Cliteur is Professor of Jurisprudence at Leiden University, The Netherlands and is one of that country's leading public intellectuals. The third article comes from ExChristian.Net, a popular Creative Commons website.

I only ever post to groups that are specific to an article's subject and that I am well familiar with. I also only post to groups articles that I have already published on our Church and State website. Nonetheless, when it comes to posting to Facebook pages and/or groups, the current Facebook block records as the 22nd such block since 1 December 2015.

1st 1-4 December 2015 (4 days)
2nd 5-7 December 2015 (3 days)
3rd 6-9 January 2016 (4 days)
4th 12-15 January 2016 (4 days)
5th 20-22 January 2016 (3 days)
6th 13-16 February 2016 (4 days)
7th 23-26 March 2016 (4 days)
8th 20-23 May 2016 (4 days)
9th 25-30 May 2016 (6 days)
10th 1-3 July 2016 (3 days)
11th 7-8 September 2016 (2 days)
12th 21-22 September 2016 (3 days)
13th 27-28 September 2016 (2 days)
14th 29 September - 3 October 2016 (5 days)
15th 4-5 October 2016 (2 days)
16th 18-23 October 2016 (6 days)
17th 9-14 December 2016 (6 days)
18th 4-6 January 2017 (3 days)
19th 20-23 January 2017 (4 days)
20th 17 May 2017 (1 day)
21st 19 June 2017 (1 day)
22nd 19-20 August 2017 (2 days) (ongoing)

Facebook has responded to only three of my previous 21 appeals, citing "technical problems" in each instance. Don Collins, President of the Washington DC-based International Services Assistance Fund, writes: "Surely after multiple postings [Facebook] must know your content is neither lewd nor extreme."

Please note that we currently have an international list of 127 Honorary Associates, including two Nobel Prize winners. Since Facebook's 16th block last October, 97 distinguished academics and other intellectuals have given us permission to add their names to the list.

Thank you in advance for your assistance in this matter.

Yours faithfully,

Lola Heavey
Webmaster
Church and State

"Let me recommend an important web site - churchandstate.org.uk. Operating out of London this well-designed and exciting web site covers church-state, population, climate change and other issues. Check it out." Edd Doerr, President, Americans for Religious Liberty

2 October 2016: Complaint to Facebook Chairman, Chief Executive and Co-Founder Mark Zuckerberg on day 4 of Facebook's 14th block since 1 December 2015

Re: Facebook

Draft paragraph 42 of Declan's next updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

42. On 13 August 2011, then Home Office Minister Lynne Featherstone wrote to Facebook on the Applicant's behalf, asking that they explain why the Applicant's wife had been barred. The bar was subsequently lifted; however, since 1 December 2015, Facebook have blocked the Applicant's wife from posting to a pages and/or groups on 22 separate occasions, and up to six days at a time (each of these blocks is well accounted for in the N4CM blog). On 22 December 2015, Labour's Lyn Brown, then Shadow Home Office Minister and now Shadow Home Secretary, made an enquiry on the Applicant's behalf to Facebook UK Managing Director Steve Hatch asking if he could offer an explanation as to the terms and conditions the Applicant's wife was alleged to have broken twice previously. To the best of the Applicant's knowledge, Mr Hatch did not respond to this letter. The Applicant's wife only ever posts to groups that are specific to an article's subject and that she is well familiar with, and she only ever posts articles that she has already published on the Church and State website. Nonetheless, Facebook have responded to only three of the Applicant's wife's 22 appeals since 1 December 2015, citing "technical problems" in each instance.

1st 1-4 December 2015 (4 days)
2nd 5-7 December 2015 (3 days)
3rd 6-9 January 2016 (4 days)
4th 12-15 January 2016 (4 days)
5th 20-22 January 2016 (3 days)
6th 13-16 February 2016 (4 days)
7th 23-26 March 2016 (4 days)
8th 20-23 May 2016 (4 days)
9th 25-30 May 2016 (6 days)
10th 1-3 July 2016 (3 days)
11th 7-8 September 2016 (2 days)
12th 21-22 September 2016 (3 days)
13th 27-28 September 2016 (2 days)
14th 29 September - 3 October 2016 (5 days)
15th 4-5 October 2016 (2 days)
16th 18-23 October 2016 (6 days)
17th 9-14 December 2016 (6 days)
18th 4-6 January 2017 (3 days)
19th 20-23 January 2017 (4 days)
20th 17 May 2017 (1 day)
21st 19 June 2017 (1 day)
22nd 19-20 August 2017 (2 days) (ongoing)

Facebook UK Managing Director Steve Hatch

UPDATE 6 September (11.15am): When it comes to stopping me from posting Church and State articles directly to pages and/or groups, Facebook's 22nd block since 1 December 2015 was removed on 21 August (a 3-day block). There's no telling what's next from Facebook. This is my report to them last night citing four other kinds of blocks since 5 April that includes the treating as spam individual book excerpts and/or articles (the unprecedented block yesterday against two articles remains ongoing):

For the attention of Mark Zuckerberg, Chairman, Chief Executive and Co-Founder of Facebook

5 September 2017

Dear Facebook,

I posted the following reply to your messages in my Support Inbox (please find both messages attached):

Please note that these two links you are treating as spam are to articles on our Church and State website:

Contraception and the Catholic Church

Christian fundamentalists are driving our country into the Dark Ages

The second article above has been liked/shared by Facebook users over 70,000 times. Neither article is spam.

On 5 April I reported that the page listing all the groups I belong to was not working. With this rectified, I reported on 10 April that I couldn't schedule posts on my page. Then I reported on 12 April that my scheduled posts were not posting. On 6 June I reported that there was no fault with an excerpt from a book by Dr Pascal Bruckner, one of France's leading public intellectuals (a 16-day block). On 24 July I reported that there was no fault with an excerpt from a book by Prof Paul Cliteur, one of the Netherlands' leading public intellectuals (an 18-day block).

On 10 August, Facebook replied: "We reviewed your [Prof Cliteur] post again and found it does follow our Community Standards. The post is being restored to Facebook. Thanks for your patience, and we apologize for any inconvenience."

Thank you in advance for your assistance in this matter.

Regards,
Lola Heavey
https://www.facebook.com/networkforchurchmonitoring/

UPDATE 6 September (continued): Despite our distinguished list of 127 Honorary Associates from around the world, the blocks on public access to our Church and State website also continue unabated. I have updated my blog post of 16 January with this morning's 723rd block on public access to our Church and State website since 26 July 2016. The blog post also not only reveals a record-breaking 52 such blocks in one week at the end of April (an unprecedented escalation that kicked off with our focus on the Danish Cartoon Crisis; 101 blocks last month), but it reveals the daily targeting to fluctuating degrees of category pages throughout the site which continues to this day. For example, as I point out in an earlier blog post about the almost certain loss of our employment contracts to the United States by Royal Mail (as opposed to the United States Postal Service), the second article below has 1/2 million Facebook likes/shares (not zero):



UPDATE 6 September (continued): And it's not just Facebook blocks, blocks on public access to our Church and State website and the daily targeting to fluctuating degrees of category pages throughout the site that Declan and I are dealing with these days. We have also been dealing with Internet cuts since 26 May. See my blog post of 21 June, Internet cuts: We pay £65 per month for BT Infinity but feel we are in a race against time to stay online (WITH UPDATE 6/9/2017 RE: 155th Internet cut since 26 May 2017).



From My Picks:

9 June: Ministry of Justice: Complaint to the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice against the County Court at Central London, Royal Courts of Justice (WITH UPDATE - Day 13 21/6/2017)

'Let me recommend an important web site churchandstate.org.uk. Operating out of London this well-designed and exciting web site covers church-state, population, climate change and other issues. Check it out.' Edd Doerr, President, Americans for Religious Liberty

Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs have refused to record my complaint about serious staff misconduct which was sent to them by the Independent Police Complaints Commission? (WITH UPDATE 23/8/2017)

Re: Blocks on public access to our Church and State website since 26 July 2016

From my newer blog post's Update 21 August (8.03pm):

"And it's not just Facebook blocks, blocks on public access to our Church and State website and the daily targeting to fluctuating degrees of category pages throughout the site that Declan and I are dealing with these days. We have also been dealing with Internet cuts since 26 May. See my blog post of 21 June, Internet cuts: We pay £65 per month for BT Infinity but feel we are in a race against time to stay online (WITH UPDATE 21/8/2017 RE: 131st Internet cut since 26 May 2017)."

23 August (8.25am): 676 blocks on public access to our Church and State website since 26 July 2016.* See my blog post of 16 January, The blocks on public access to our Church and State website continue unabated (WITH UPDATE 23/8/2017 RE: 676th block since 26 July 2016). 74 blocks last month; 74 blocks this month; 25 blocks last week; 7 blocks this week; 2 blocks since midnight today (as of 23 August at 8.25am).

1. 636th 13 August 2017, 12.32am
2. 637th 13 August 2017, 3.45am
3. 638th 13 August 2017, 4.47am
4. 639th 13 August 2017, 6.39am
5. 640th 13 August 2017, 8.10am
6. 641st 13 August 2017, 9.50am
7. 642nd 13 August 2017, 3.16pm
8. 643rd 13 August 2017, 5.58pm
9. 644th 13 August 2017, 6.52pm
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16. 651st 15 August 2017, 12.03am
17. 652nd 15 August 2017, 1.56am
18. 653rd 15 August 2017, 3.39am
19. 654th 15 August 2017, 5.34am
20. 655th 15 August 2017, 10.51pm
21. 656th 15 August 2017, 3.11pm
22. 657th 15 August 2017, 4.34pm
23. 658th 15 August 2017, 6.45pm
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40. 675th 23 August 2017, 2.27am
41. 676th 23 August 2017, 5.51am

* An unprecedented escalation of 52 blocks in one week at the end of April 2017 that kicked off with our focus on Denmark's cartoon crisis.

The War on Free Expression

HMRC Customer Service Manager for PAYE and Self Assessment: "We previously asked you to complete Self Assessment tax returns because you told us that you would receive self-employed income. However, your 2015-16 return only included income of £2,967 from Network for Church Monitoring and as you had told us that this was PAYE income, we have closed your Self Assessment record" [emphasis added].

It is our single indisputable narrative going forward that Declan and I are being harassed even by Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC). This morning I received an email from HMRC Pay As You Earn (PAYE) and Self Assessment that was no more than a version of a letter dated 4 August 2017 that I received from them last Saturday. I complained later on Saturday to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) about serious misconduct by HMRC staff involving criminal or near criminal behaviour. I not only complained about HMRC PAYE & SA updating my address on 11 July without my permission, but also their subsequent closure of my Self Assessment account based upon fabricated hearsay evidence which no independent judiciary would accept. If HMRC do not write to me, or write to me to say my complaint has not been recorded by them, I have a right of appeal to the IPCC against the non-recording of my complaint. It remains uncertain whether or not HMRC has refused to record my complaint:

For the attention of Jon Thompson, Chief Executive and Permanent Secretary of HM Revenue and Customs

John Hughes
Customer Service Adviser
HM Revenue and Customs

Address removed for email


14 August 2017

Dear Mr Hughes,

Thank you for your call this morning. I understand that HMRC may not have refused to record my complaint about serious misconduct by HMRC staff involving criminal or near criminal behaviour, which the Independent Police Complaints Commission sent to your Professional Standards Department or equivalent on 12 August.

Yours sincerely,

Maria Dolores Heavey
NINO: [number removed]

Re: Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs

Complaint about serious staff misconduct involving criminal or near criminal behaviour overseen by the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

12 August 2017

This morning I received the attached letter dated 4 August 2017 from HMRC PAYE & Self Assessment. Please treat this complaint as a complaint about serious misconduct by HMRC staff involving criminal or near criminal behaviour.

I wish to complain about the updating of my address by HMRC PAYE & SA on 11 July 2017, which was done without my authority. By email dated 9 July 2017, I specifically informed HMRC PAYE & SA that my address had not changed and that such an update may result in the suspension of my husband's Housing Benefit. Nonetheless, HMRC PAYE & SA updated my address against my expressed wishes and with no regard for the detrimental effect this may have on myself and my husband.

I also wish to complain about the then subsequent closure of my Self Assessment account by HMRC PAYE & SA on the grounds that I told them I was self-employed. I have never told HMRC that I am self-employed. The closure of my SA account could only, therefore, have been based on fabricated hearsay evidence which no independent judiciary would accept. HMRC PAYE & SA have reopened my SA account and updated their records to show that I am not self-employed, but they have not provided any evidence to support the closure of my SA account in the first instance.

I am looking for HMRC Professional Standards to uphold this complaint about serious misconduct by HMRC staff involving criminal or near criminal behaviour.

As soon as I can I will publish the letter dated 4 August 2017 that I received from HMRC last Saturday; see my previous blog post, Is this letter I received from HM Revenue and Customs this morning so outrageous that TinyPic will no longer permit me to upload images or videos to their website? (WITH UPDATE - DAY 3 14/8/2017). We are well familiar with the IPCC. For example, Declan complained to the IPCC about the police investigation into the removal of our flat door in 2012. It was the IPCC's finding on that occasion that since our then landlady had subsequently signed an undertaking to the County Court promising not to harass us, there was no requirement for the Metropolitan Police Service to take further action.

Re: Removal of our flat door

Paragraph 23(ii) of Declan's updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

23(ii) On 21 August 2012, Ms McKenzie signed an undertaking to the County Court promising not to harass the Applicant and his wife following her builder's removal of the door to their flat (see Annex 9, p. 31). The Independent Police Complaints Commission later upheld the Applicant's appeal against the police investigation of the incident "on information only", stating that "no further action is required by the force in this instance".

UPDATE 23 August (8.27am): In my previous blog post I publish the content of the letter dated 4 August 2017 that I received from HMRC on 12 August. However, I cannot publish the letter itself because since I received it, I haven't been able to upload images or videos to TinyPic. This constitutes an unprecedented 10-day block from TinyPic to date. No response either from TinyPic to this report of mine following my receipt on 12 August of the now-infamous letter from HMRC which has seemingly put this entire blog at risk:

12 August 2017

Dear TinyPic,

I cannot upload any images to the TinyPic website on any of four laptops. I run Windows 7 and 10.

When I try to upload an image all I get is "This image or video has been moved or deleted". Please see the attached screenshot.

Thank you in advance for your assistance in this matter.

Regards,
Lola Heavey

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'Let me recommend an important web site churchandstate.org.uk. Operating out of London this well-designed and exciting web site covers church-state, population, climate change and other issues. Check it out.' Edd Doerr, President, Americans for Religious Liberty

Is this letter I received from HM Revenue and Customs this morning so outrageous that TinyPic will no longer permit me to upload images or videos to their website? (WITH UPDATE - DAY 12 23/8/2017)

Re: Internet cuts since 26 May 2017

From my newer blog post's Update 21 August (8.03pm):

"And it's not just Facebook blocks, blocks on public access to our Church and State website and the daily targeting to fluctuating degrees of category pages throughout the site that Declan and I are dealing with these days. We have also been dealing with Internet cuts since 26 May. See my blog post of 21 June, Internet cuts: We pay £65 per month for BT Infinity but feel we are in a race against time to stay online (WITH UPDATE 21/8/2017 RE: 131st Internet cut since 26 May 2017)."

23 August (8.12am): We had to suspend work on our Church and State website on 15 June after 4 internet cuts in one night. With a then unprecedented 6 internet cuts on 6 July; 6 cuts on 22 July; 6 cuts on 4 August; 5 cuts on 16 August; 6 cuts last week; none since midnight today (as of 22 August at 8.12am).

1. 121st 8 August 2017, 2.02pm
2. 122nd 8 August 2017, 3.24pm
3. 123rd 8 August 2017, 10.45pm
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4. 124th 9 August 2017, 12.49pm
5. 125th 9 August 2017, 3.14pm
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6. 126th 16 August 2017, 10.46am
7. 127th 16 August 2017, 11.01am
8. 128th 16 August 2017, 7.02pm
9. 129th 16 August 2017, 8.16pm
10. 130th 16 August 2017, 9.12pm
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11. 131st 18 August 2017, 2.02pm

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HMRC Customer Service Manager for PAYE and Self Assessment: "We previously asked you to complete Self Assessment tax returns because you told us that you would receive self-employed income. However, your 2015-16 return only included income of £2,967 from Network for Church Monitoring and as you had told us that this was PAYE income, we have closed your Self Assessment record" [emphasis added].

We thought that it was bad enough when Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) updated my address without my authority on 11 July; and this despite the fact that I specifically informed HMRC Pay As You Earn (PAYE) and Self Assessment that my address had not changed and that such an update may result in the suspension of our Housing Benefit. Then I received a letter from HMRC PAYE & SA stating that they had closed my Self Assessment account; and this based upon fabricated evidence which no independent judiciary would accept. Perhaps they had the termination of our housing benefit in mind when they closed my SA account, if not also creating trouble for Declan in Companies House. I have completed the Independent Police Complaints Commission's online complaints form for transmission by the IPCC to the Professional Standards Department of HMRC (see my previous blog post published this afternoon). I did this after receiving a letter dated 4 August 2017 from HMRC this morning. Within minutes of receiving the letter, I discovered that I could not upload images or videos to the TinyPic website on any of our four laptops. Is this letter from HMRC so outrageous that TinyPic will no longer permit me to upload images or videos to their website?

4 August 2017

Dear Mrs Heavey

Thank you for your telephone call of 3 August 2017.

I am sorry we closed your Self Assessment account and for the concern, we have caused you and Mr Heavey.

I spoke with Mr Heavey on 3 August 2017. I confirmed we have reopened your SA account and updated our records to show that you are not Self Employed.

We will not to (sic) update your address unless we receive written confirmation from you.

If you tell other government departments about a change to your address, our systems will automatically update your records.

If you have any further enquiries regarding the above, please write to at (sic) the above address or call me on 03000 513264. I will be happy to help.

Yours sincerely

Mr D Buchanan
Customer Service Adviser

My previous blog post (12.46pm): Independent Police Complaints Commission: My Complaint about serious misconduct by HM Revenue and Customs staff involving criminal or near criminal behaviour (WITH UPDATE 12/8/2017)

DAY 12 UPDATE 23 August (8.55am): I still cannot upload images or videos to TinyPic, which constitutes an unprecedented 12-day block from them to date. No response either from TinyPic to this report of mine following my receipt of the now-infamous letter above from HMRC which has seemingly put this entire blog at risk:

12 August 2017

Dear TinyPic,

I cannot upload any images to the TinyPic website on any of four laptops. I run Windows 7 and 10.

When I try to upload an image all I get is "This image or video has been moved or deleted". Please see the attached screenshot.

Thank you in advance for your assistance in this matter.

Regards,
Lola Heavey

From My Picks:

9 June: Ministry of Justice: Complaint to the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice against the County Court at Central London, Royal Courts of Justice (WITH UPDATE - Day 13 21/6/2017)

'Let me recommend an important web site churchandstate.org.uk. Operating out of London this well-designed and exciting web site covers church-state, population, climate change and other issues. Check it out.' Edd Doerr, President, Americans for Religious Liberty

Independent Police Complaints Commission: My Complaint about serious misconduct by HM Revenue and Customs staff involving criminal or near criminal behaviour (WITH UPDATE 12/8/2017)

Re: Blocks on public access to our Church and State website since 26 July 2016

From my earlier blog post's Update 10 August (6.50pm):

"And it's not just Facebook blocks, blocks on public access to our Church and State website and the daily targeting to fluctuating degrees of category pages throughout the site that Declan and I are dealing with these days. We have also been dealing with Internet cuts since 26 May. See my blog post of 21 June, Internet cuts: We pay £65 per month for BT Infinity but feel we are in a race against time to stay online (WITH UPDATE 10/8/2017 RE: 125th Internet cut since 26 May 2017)."

12 August (10.16am): 634 blocks on public access to our Church and State website since 26 July 2016 (111 blocks last year). An unprecedented escalation of 52 blocks in one week at the end of April that kicked off with our focus on Denmark's cartoon crisis. 7 blocks on 10 August; 4 blocks yesterday; 3 blocks since midnight today.

621st 10 August 2017, 7.19am
622nd 10 August 2017, 10.01am
623rd 10 August 2017, 1.26pm
624th 10 August 2017, 3.45pm
625th 10 August 2017, 5.32pm
626th 10 August 2017, 8.40pm
627th 10 August 2017, 9.32pm
628th 11 August 2017, 4.00am
629th 11 August 2017, 6.35am
630th 11 August 2017, 8.00am
631st 11 August 2017, 11.25pm
632nd 12 August 2017, 12.38am
633rd 12 August 2017, 2.22am
634th 12 August 2017, 8.17am

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HMRC Customer Service Manager for PAYE and Self Assessment: "We previously asked you to complete Self Assessment tax returns because you told us that you would receive self-employed income. However, your 2015-16 return only included income of £2,967 from Network for Church Monitoring and as you had told us that this was PAYE income, we have closed your Self Assessment record" [emphasis added].

I am using the Independent Police Complaints Commission's complaints system to complain about Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC). My completed form goes direct to the Professional Standards Department of HMRC to be dealt with.

Re: Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs

Complaint about serious staff misconduct involving criminal or near criminal behaviour overseen by the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

12 August 2017

This morning I received the attached letter dated 4 August 2017 from HMRC PAYE & Self Assessment. Please treat this complaint as a complaint about serious misconduct by HMRC staff involving criminal or near criminal behaviour.

I wish to complain about the updating of my address by HMRC PAYE & SA on 11 July 2017, which was done without my authority. By email dated 9 July 2017, I specifically informed HMRC PAYE & SA that my address had not changed and that such an update may result in the suspension of my husband's Housing Benefit. Nonetheless, HMRC PAYE & SA updated my address against my expressed wishes and with no regard for the detrimental effect this may have on myself and my husband.

I also wish to complain about the then subsequent closure of my Self Assessment account by HMRC PAYE & SA on the grounds that I told them I was self-employed. I have never told HMRC that I am self-employed. The closure of my SA account could only, therefore, have been based on fabricated hearsay evidence which no independent judiciary would accept. HMRC PAYE & SA have reopened my SA account and updated their records to show that I am not self-employed, but they have not provided any evidence to support the closure of my SA account in the first instance.

I am looking for HMRC Professional Standards to uphold this complaint about serious misconduct by HMRC staff involving criminal or near criminal behaviour.

8 August: HM Revenue and Customs: It is our single indisputable narrative going forward that we are being harassed even by HMRC (WITH UPDATE 11/8/2017)

We are well familiar with the IPCC; for example, in 2012, Declan complained to the IPCC about the police investigation into the removal of our flat door.

Re: Removal of our flat door

Paragraph 23(ii) of Declan's updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

On 21 August 2012, Ms McKenzie signed an undertaking to the County Court promising not to harass the Applicant and his wife following her builder's removal of the door to their flat (see Annex 9, p. 31). The Independent Police Complaints Commission later upheld the Applicant's appeal against the police investigation of the incident "on information only", stating that "no further action is required by the force in this instance".

UPDATE 12 August (5.11pm): As soon as I can, I will publish the letter dated 4 August 2017 that I received from HMRC this morning. One of their Customer Service Advisers writes: "[W]e have reopened your SA account and updated our records to show that you are not Self Employed." Surely this letter is not so outrageous that I can no longer upload images or videos to TinyPic? This is my report to TinyPic this morning:

12 August 2017

Dear TinyPic,

I cannot upload any images to the TinyPic website on any of four laptops. I run Windows 7 and 10.

When I try to upload an image all I get is "This image or video has been moved or deleted". Please see the attached screenshot.

Thank you in advance for your assistance in this matter.

Regards,
Lola Heavey

From My Picks:

9 June: Ministry of Justice: Complaint to the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice against the County Court at Central London, Royal Courts of Justice (WITH UPDATE - Day 13 21/6/2017)

'Let me recommend an important web site churchandstate.org.uk. Operating out of London this well-designed and exciting web site covers church-state, population, climate change and other issues. Check it out.' Edd Doerr, President, Americans for Religious Liberty

It is our narrative going forward that we are being harassed even by HM Revenue and Customs. The Department for Work and Pensions has our Housing Benefit twice suspended by repeatedly claiming we have vacated (WITH UPDATE 11/8/2017)

Re: Internet cuts since 26 May 2017

From my earlier blog post's Update 10 August (6.50pm):

"And it's not just Facebook blocks, blocks on public access to our Church and State website and the daily targeting to fluctuating degrees of category pages throughout the site that Declan and I are dealing with these days. We have also been dealing with Internet cuts since 26 May. See my blog post of 21 June, Internet cuts: We pay £65 per month for BT Infinity but feel we are in a race against time to stay online (WITH UPDATE 10/8/2017 RE: 125th Internet cut since 26 May 2017)."

11 August (8.30am): We had to suspend work on our Church and State website on 15 June after 4 internet cuts in one night. With a then unprecedented 6 internet cuts on 6 July; 6 cuts on 22 July; 6 cuts on 4 August; none since midnight today (as of 11 August at 8.30am).

102nd 4 August 2017, 10.19am
103rd 4 August 2017, 12.02pm
104th 4 August 2017, 2.03pm
105th 4 August 2017, 5.32pm
106th 4 August 2017, 8.58pm
107th 4 August 2017, 11.47pm

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HMRC Customer Service Manager for PAYE and Self Assessment: "We previously asked you to complete Self Assessment tax returns because you told us that you would receive self-employed income. However, your 2015-16 return only included income of £2,967 from Network for Church Monitoring and as you had told us that this was PAYE income, we have closed your Self Assessment record" [emphasis added].

We thought that is was bad enough when HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) updated my address without my authority on 11 July; see my blog post of 13 July, HM Revenue and Customs: My Self-Assessment address has been updated by HMRC without my authority and Declan has just been informed by Newham Council that our Housing Benefit may be suspended as a result (WITH DOUBLE UPDATE 14/7/2017). Then last Thursday I received a letter from HMRC Pay As You Earn (PAYE) and Self Assessment stating that HMRC had closed my Self Assessment record. Taking HMRC Customer Service Manager (PAYE and SA) John Fitzpatrick at his written word (quoted above), my Self Assessment record was unjustifiably closed on the ground of fabricated hearsay evidence which no independent judiciary would accept; see my blog post of 3 August, My Stage 2 complaint re the unauthorised updating of my address by HM Revenue and Customs includes the issue of the unjustified closure of my Self Assessment record by the Customer Service Manager for PAYE and Self Assessment (WITH UPDATE 4/8/2017). Declan copied HMRC Chief Executive Jon Thompson into this unacknowledged email last Friday to Secretary of State for Work and Pensions David Gauke for our indisputable narrative going forward that we are being harassed even by HMRC:

For the attention of Jon Thompson, Chief Executive and Permanent Secretary of HM Revenue and Customs

The Rt Hon David Gauke MP
Secretary of State for Work and Pensions
Department for Work and Pensions

Address removed for email

4 August 2017

BY EMAIL AND RECORDED POST


National Insurance Number (NINO): [number removed]
Unique Taxpayer Reference (UTR): [number removed]

Dear Secretary of State,

Incorrect notifications regarding a change in address

I refer to the attached letter from Newham Benefits Service (NBS). Since October 2016, NBS have twice suspended my Housing Benefit because on both occasions they were informed by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) that I had vacated.

My home address since 17 May 2014 has been and remains 71 Queens Road West, London E13 0PE. This is also the address on my Self Assessment record with HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) since 17 February 2017. The address of the non-profit-making company limited by guarantee that I incorporated on 18 January 2011, Network for Church Monitoring, is Suite 101 254 Pentonville Road, London N1 9JY. This address is based on the company's registration details since 8 November 2016.

On 11 July 2017, HMRC updated my home address on my wife's Self Assessment record without her authority. I am informed by NBS that they have not received any notification regarding a change in address from HMRC or the DWP. I am writing to you to clarify the situation and impress upon you the detrimental effect any incorrect notification may have. I am also copying HMRC Chief Executive Jon Thompson into this email.

Neither my wife nor myself is self-employed; that is, contrary to HMRC's latest assertion that my wife told them she is PAYE self-employed. My wife has made a Stage 2 complaint against HMRC on both the unauthorised updating of her address on 11 July by HMRC PAYE and Self Assessment and on the subsequent issue of the unjustified closure of her Self Assessment record by HMRC's Customer Service Manager for PAYE and Self Assessment based on fabricated hearsay evidence which no independent judiciary would accept.

If the DWP have any further questions regarding this email please do not hesitate to contact me, the easiest way to do so is to email me at dheavey@gmail.com.

Yours sincerely,

Declan Heavey
Managing Director
Network for Church Monitoring

"Let me recommend an important web site - churchandstate.org.uk. Operating out of London this well-designed and exciting web site covers church-state, population, climate change and other issues. Check it out." Edd Doerr, President, Americans for Religious Liberty

7 July: Complaint to the CEO of Royal Mail: Has Royal Mail declared open warfare on our incoming mail? And this question is raised on top of Internet cuts that are going out of control (WITH DOUBLE UPDATE 10/7/2017)

As Declan points out in his email above to David Gauke, Newham Council have twice suspended our Housing Benefit because on both occasions they were informed by the Department for Work and Pensions that we had vacated. The first time this happened, last October, Declan was summoned to a full-blown investigation by Newham Benefits Service. He produced a bundle of 57 pages with a number of further documents, and was interrogated for over an hour and a half by a Senior Council Tax and Benefits Officer before our Housing Benefit was de-suspended. We have absolutely no idea what we could be looking at this time around. (Declan wrote the pre-action letter below in respect of the second such suspension last February.) Suspensions can also last any period of time and the tenant pursued for rent for the length of the suspension.

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UPDATE 9 August (10.12am): Nothing from the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). I am also still waiting for written assurance from HMRC that my address will not be updated by them again without my authority, and that the issue of the unjustified closure of my Self Assessment record by the Customer Service Manager for PAYE and Self Assessment will be handled by HMRC in accordance with the appropriate laws. We are in two minds whether or not to complain to the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) about serious staff misconduct, on the part of HMRC, involving criminal or near criminal behaviour.

UPDATE 11 August (8.36am): Still nothing from the DWP, and I have not received so much as an acknowledgement from HRMC to my Stage 2 complaint last week. Declan has phoned the IPCC. They told him that I can complain to them if we want to, that they would then contact HMRC for the recording of my complaint. I have downloaded the IPCC complaint form! We have chosen "corruption" from the list of options HMRC provide on their website for serious staff misconduct involving criminal or near criminal behaviour. Newham Council's threat to suspend our Housing Benefit for the third time since last October remains as apparent as ever. They write: "As previously explained once we receive notification of a change in your circumstance that may affect your entitlement our procedure is to suspend the claim to avoid an incorrect payment."

29 November 2016: Will it take the Independent Police Complaints Commission to protect our address with HM Revenue and Customs? (WITH UPDATE 22/12/2016).

Re: Investigatory Powers Tribunal

The Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) dismissed Declan's complaint against the secret services on papers in less than three weeks, on 1 September 2011, stating that it was "obviously unsustainable". This is paragraph 11 of Declan's updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

11. The IPT was created in October 2000 by the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act and given the power to investigate any complaints against GCHQ, MI5 or MI6, as well as complaints about surveillance operations mounted by the police or any other public bodies. On 5 March 2014 the Guardian reported that the tribunal, which claims to be completely independent of the UK Government, is secretly operating from a base within the Home Office, by which it is funded. The newspaper found that the IPT had investigated about 1,500 complaints, and upheld only 10; five of these concerned members of one family who had all lodged complaints about surveillance by their local council. No complaint against any of the intelligence agencies had ever been upheld. The discovery that the IPT is lodged within a Whitehall department fuelled criticisms of the tribunal that had been levelled by rights groups, lawyers and complainants. The IPT's critics complain that the secrecy is excessive and that its procedures are stacked so heavily in favour of the government and against complainants that it is fundamentally unfair. According to the Guardian, some senior lawyers have described the IPT as "Kafkaesque", while one eminent barrister has dismissed it as "a kangaroo court". The newspaper also reports that as a consequence of the secrecy surrounding the tribunal and the perception that it is unfair, many would-be complainants spurn it.

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9 June: Ministry of Justice: Complaint to the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice against the County Court at Central London, Royal Courts of Justice (WITH UPDATE - Day 13 21/6/2017)

'Let me recommend an important web site churchandstate.org.uk. Operating out of London this well-designed and exciting web site covers church-state, population, climate change and other issues. Check it out.' Edd Doerr, President, Americans for Religious Liberty

One of two laptops I work on has been removed from the internet. Declan's two laptops are working fine (WITH DOUBLE UPDATE 7/8/2017)

Re: Internet cuts since 26 May 2017

From my earlier blog post's Update 6 August (7.35pm):

"And it's not just Facebook blocks, blocks on public access to our Church and State website and the daily targeting to fluctuating degrees of category pages throughout the site that Declan and I are dealing with these days. We have also been dealing with Internet cuts since 26 May. See my blog post of 21 June, Internet cuts: We pay £65 per month for BT Infinity but feel we are in a race against time to stay online (WITH UPDATE 6/8/2017 RE: 116th Internet cut since 26 May 2017)."

We had to suspend work on our Church and State website on 15 June after 4 internet cuts in one night. With a then unprecedented 6 internet cuts on 6 July; 6 cuts on 22 July; 6 cuts on 4 August; 5 cuts yesterday; 4 cuts so far today (as of 6 August at 7.35pm).

113th 6 August 2017, 12.46pm
114th 6 August 2017, 2.35pm
115th 6 August 2017, 3.50pm
116th 6 August 2017, 5.02pm

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UK Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)

Since I woke up this morning, I have had no access to the internet on one of two of my laptops. Declan's two laptops are working fine. The worst attack of this sort that we have experienced to date was in September 2016; see my blog post of 22 September 2016, All three of our laptops are targeted in an unprecedented attack: I have to use the deep web Tor Browser to post on Facebook (VIDEO). I am currently developing my Howard Bloom page. Bloom has been called "next in a lineage of seminal thinkers that includes Newton, Darwin, Einstein, [and] Freud" by Britain’s Channel4 TV, "the next Stephen Hawking" by Gear Magazine, and "The Buckminster Fuller and Arthur C. Clarke of the new millennium" by Buckminster Fuller’s archivist.



We are once again reminded of the removal of our flat door in 2012.

Re: Removal of our flat door

Paragraph 23(ii) of Declan's updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

On 21 August 2012, Ms McKenzie signed an undertaking to the County Court promising not to harass the Applicant and his wife following her builder’s removal of the door to their flat (see Annex 9, p. 31). The Independent Police Complaints Commission later upheld the Applicant’s appeal against the police investigation of the incident "on information only", stating that "no further action is required by the force in this instance".

UPDATE 7 August (1.20pm): We are still reduced to three laptops. We have absolutely no idea where this attack is going, but for the time being I will be updating this blog post every couple of hours or so. My latest Howard Bloom extraordinaire: The Struggle For Europe.

UPDATE 7 August (2.42pm): I have my laptop back! At the moment Declan has two laptops connected to the internet and so do I.

Re: Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ)

Paragraph 12 of Declan's updated complaint to the United Nations under Article 19 (freedom of expression) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights.

12. It is important to underscore that the discriminatory surveillance suffered by the Applicant and his wife is not an isolated event. Rather, it is emblematic of a larger pattern of surveillance by law enforcement officials in the UK that has been well-documented by international and domestic human rights bodies. For example, GCHQ's Joint Threat Research Intelligence Group (JTRIG) specialises in the "4 D's": deny, disrupt, degrade, deceive. It has been branded by the press as the spy agency's "deception unit". Though its existence was secret until 2014, JTRIG has developed a distinctive profile in the public understanding, after documents from NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden revealed that the unit had engaged in "dirty tricks" like deploying sexual "honey traps" designed to discredit targets, launching denial-of-service attacks to shut down Internet chat rooms, pushing veiled propaganda onto social networks and generally warping discourse online. Previous reporting on GCHQ established its focus on what it regards as political radicalism. Beyond JTRIG's targeting of Anonymous, other parts of GCHQ targeted political activists and groups deemed to be "radical", even monitoring human rights NGOs. The President of the London-based Privacy International, Simon Davies, asks: "If spying on human rights NGOs isn't off limits for GCHQ, then what is?"

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9 June: Ministry of Justice: Complaint to the Lord Chancellor and Secretary of State for Justice against the County Court at Central London, Royal Courts of Justice (WITH UPDATE - Day 13 21/6/2017)

'Let me recommend an important web site churchandstate.org.uk. Operating out of London this well-designed and exciting web site covers church-state, population, climate change and other issues. Check it out.' Edd Doerr, President, Americans for Religious Liberty

My Stage 2 complaint re the unauthorised updating of my address by HM Revenue and Customs includes the issue of the unjustified closure of my Self Assessment record by the Customer Service Manager for PAYE and Self Assessment (WITH UPDATE 4/8/2017)

Re: Internet cuts since 26 May 2017

From my earlier blog post's Update 4 August (11.16am):

"And it's not just Facebook blocks, blocks on public access to our Church and State website and the daily targeting to fluctuating degrees of category pages throughout the site that Declan and I are dealing with these days. We have also been dealing with Internet cuts since 26 May. See my blog post of 21 June, Internet cuts: We pay £65 per month for BT Infinity but feel we are in a race against time to stay online (WITH UPDATE 4/8/2017 RE: 102nd Internet cut since 26 May 2017)."

We had to suspend work on our Church and State website on 15 June after 4 internet cuts in one night. With a then unprecedented 6 internet cuts on 6 July; 6 cuts on 22 July; 5 cuts on 1 August; 1 cut so far today (as of 4 August at 11.16am).

92nd 1 August 2017, 10.32am
93rd 1 August 2017, 3.47pm
94th 1 August 2017, 4.46pm
95th 1 August 2017, 8.19pm
96th 1 August 2017, 9.31pm

The War on Free Expression

HMRC Customer Service Manager for PAYE and Self Assessment: "We previously asked you to complete Self Assessment tax returns because you told us that you would receive self-employed income. However, your 2015-16 return only included income of £2,967 from Network for Church Monitoring and as you had told us that this was PAYE income, we have closed your Self Assessment record" [emphasis added].

I read a letter from Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs Pay As You Earn (PAYE) and Self Assessment this morning in disbelief. For over three weeks, I have been complaining to HMRC about their unauthorised updating of my address on 11 July; see my blog post of 13 July, HM Revenue and Customs: My Self-Assessment address has been updated by HMRC without my authority and Declan has just been informed by Newham Council that our Housing Benefit may be suspended as a result (WITH DOUBLE UPDATE 14/7/2017). Now HMRC Customer Service Manager (PAYE and SA) John Fitzpatrick tells me that they have gone and closed my Self Assessment record. We have absolutely no idea how far HMRC are going to go with this; see my blog post 20 February, The Central London County Court: District Judge Avent dismisses Declan's claim against the Greater London Authority-commissioned St Mungo's that alleged the falsification and fabrication of data against us (WITH UPDATE 16/3/2017). As I did with my Stage 1 complaint, I have copied HMRC Chief Executive Jon Thompson into my Stage 2 complaint this afternoon:

For the attention of Jon Thompson, Chief Executive and Permanent Secretary of HM Revenue and Customs

Complaints Service (PAYE and SA) Tier 2
HM Revenue and Customs

Address removed for email


3 August 2017

Tax Reference [number removed]

Dear Operational Manager,

I believe that HMRC Customer Service Manager (PAYE and SA) John Fitzpatrick failed to deal properly with my complaint below. I attach his first tier response of 24 July 2017, which I received in this morning's post. Please treat this complaint as a Stage 2 complaint.

Newham Benefits Service (NBS) cannot provide my husband with assurance that his Housing Benefit will not be suspended as a result of the unauthorised updating of my address by HMRC on 11 July 2017. NBS's latest letter is also attached. They say the suspension will be automatic if NBS receives notification of a change in circumstance from either HMRC or the Department for Work and Pensions. As I have repeatedly stressed, my address has not changed since 17 May 2014. Please would you provide me with a letter stating that HMRC will not update my address again without my authorisation.

Further, I never told HMRC that I am self-employed or that I would receive self-employed income. I am not self-employed and I have never declared myself as such to HMRC or Newham Council. Mr Fitzpatrick writes: "We previously asked you to complete Self Assessment tax returns because you told us that you would receive self-employed income. However, your 2015-16 return only included income of £2,967 from Network for Church Monitoring and as you had told us that this was PAYE income, we have closed your Self Assessment record."

Please would you also provide me with immediate assurance that my Self Assessment record has not, and will not, be closed. To clarify, I am employed as the Webmaster for Network for Church Monitoring (N4CM). My 2015-16 Self Assessment tax return only included income from N4CM of £2,967 (untaxed income). Contrary to what Mr Fitzpatrick says, I never told HMRC this was PAYE income. My 2015-16 return included a declaration that I do not have the PAYE tax reference from my employer because my annual earnings fell below the PAYE tax threshold (then £10,600 per year). There is absolutely no justification for the closure of my Self-Assessment record.

This morning I tried speaking with Hazel McMaster at PAYE and Self Assessment Complaints. I was told that she would phone me back, but she never did. I was assured that my Self Assessment record is currently open. I was not, however, provided with any assurance that the issue of the unjustified closure of my Self Assessment record by Mr Fitzpatrick will be handled by HMRC in accordance with the appropriate laws.

Yours faithfully,

Maria Dolores Heavey
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7 July: Complaint to the CEO of Royal Mail: Has Royal Mail declared open warfare on our incoming mail? And this question is raised on top of Internet cuts that are going out of control (WITH DOUBLE UPDATE 10/7/2017)

UPDATE 4 August (12.14pm): I am still waiting for written assurance from HMRC that my address will not be updated by them again without my authority, and that the issue of the unjustified closure of my Self Assessment record by the Customer Service Manager for PAYE and Self Assessment will be handled by HMRC in accordance with the appropriate laws. You couldn't make it up: it has taken us over three years to try and secure our address with HMRC; and now, based on fabricated hearsay evidence which no independent judiciary would accept, the Customer Service Manager for PAYE and Self Assessment writes to me: "...we have closed your Self Assessment record". It is our single indisputable narrative going forward that we are being harassed even by HMRC; see my blog post of 29 November 2016, Will it take the Independent Police Complaints Commission to protect our address with HM Revenue and Customs? (WITH UPDATE 22/12/2016).



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