U.K. taxman hit with ad complaint

Sometimes it seems that almost anything will offend someone. Take the latest round of complaints filed with the Advertising Standards Authority in London (actual ASA Web-site complaint button shown here). Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, a new British agency formed recently to improve tax collection, launched a national ad campaign last month encouraging people to help the government catch self-employed people who do not pay taxes on their wages. The ad showed a plumber hiding under a kitchen sink with the tagline, “With your help, we’ll make sure self-employed people who don’t pay their tax have nowhere to hide.”