Bungling tax inspectors overpaid themselves £22million over the past decade, it has emerged.
In the 2015/16 financial year alone, the salary blunders added up to £1.4million – or an average of almost £5,600 extra for each staff member.
The overpayments at the taxpayer’s expense – revealed by a Freedom of Information request – came after it emerged Whitehall waste has cost taxpayers at least £5.5billion in two years.