Revenue set for shake-up as ex-BAA chief Clasper is brought in

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Mike Clasper, who was chief executive of BAA until its 2006 sale to Ferrovial of Spain, has been appointed chairman of the taxation super-ministry.

Clasper, 54 is giving up a highly paid job as operational managing director with Guy Hands' privateequity group Terra Firma, where he has been trying to run EMI during its difficult transition to private ownership. The HMRC post will be part-time - he will be paid £128,000 a year for a three-day week - and his first job will be to appoint HMRC's first-ever chief executive.

Clasper, who remains a non-executive director of ITV, has been charged by the Chancellor with shaking up an organisation in crisis. Morale is said to be at an all-time low, with staff from the old Inland Revenue and Customs & Excise agencies at loggerheads. Up to 30,000 jobs are believed to have gone since HMRC's creation four years ago.

He will be HMRC's fourth chairman in that time. Two previous incumbents were hit by revelations that disks carrying tax and child data on 7.25 million households had been lost.

Chancellor Alistair Darling said: "Appointing someone of Mike's calibre and experience is particularly important at this point. Mike will bring the leadership and vision needed."