7 September 2010
21:1069248Don't even get me started on this!
Over to you guys.....
Guest 694- Registered: 22 Mar 2010
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7 September 2010
21:1069249ohh i love them all..dont you :)
Guest 651- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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7 September 2010
21:1169250Just wait until they take the tax calculation away from the employers and HMRC do it all.....
Been nice knowing you :)
Guest 694- Registered: 22 Mar 2010
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7 September 2010
21:1369251ohh crap.. we are in for a shocker then arent we?!
I just love the way they keep randomly sending me the same letter despite me ringing and telling them.. i dont retire til i'm 68.. stop asking me for money, i will get my tax years in!
Jan Higgins
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7 September 2010
21:4069257My son in Oxford used to work in the VAT side, since their amalgamation wth the tax department everything has gone downhill. The efficient VAT system now has to use the inefficient tax system.
Best day ever was when I was able to stop filling in my self assesment form.
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howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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7 September 2010
21:5969260it may be best to keep calm on this issue, difficult i know.
listened to some tax experts today, could be that hmrc and the government are trying it on.
firstly if the bill relates to anything a year on you can claim that it is too late.
secondly if the info you have given is correct you have the right to ask that the demand be waived.
not guaranteed that the tax people will do so, however i suspect that they may be forced into doing so in a lot of cases.
Jan Higgins- Location: Dover
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7 September 2010
22:2769261The vast majority of letters going out will mean there is a cheque coming in the near future. Many more refund letters than demand letters have gone out, if I have understood correctly.
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Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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8 September 2010
06:4169282So if they are in great danger of paying our more than they demand, they may as well have kept quiet and we would all have been happy in ignorance.
Roger
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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8 September 2010
08:0869288This is not entirely new. I have been aware for 21 years that approx 20% of tax codings tend to be wrong and have frequently helped clients identify and resolve these problems. Interesting that this fact has only now been highlighted by the press to further develop this story.
Guest 643- Registered: 12 Mar 2008
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8 September 2010
13:1569334Has anyone on the forum actually received one of these letters - a refund or a demand? No-one I know has had one yet.
There's always a little truth behind every "Just kidding", a little emotion behind every "I don't care" and a little pain behind every "I'm ok".
Guest 690- Registered: 10 Oct 2009
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8 September 2010
14:5569339I do hope very much that my tax code is way, way out, as I sent a form off last week to an independant tax company who`ll be checking mine back for the last 8 years. All free, courtesy of our union. I get 60% in the pound back, for each pound owed, the tax company keeping 40%.
Tell them that I came, and no one answered.
11 September 2010
10:336992511 September 2010
10:3969926Typical arrogant **** civil servant. Hope he loses his job in the cuts as it would serve him right.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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11 September 2010
12:2369936yet another top man with no p.r. skills.
we have had the top people at british gas and b.p make howlers already.
Keith Sansum1
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11 September 2010
12:3569938COLIN
Nice to see you again this morning
union, is it the RMT?
HOWARD;
Nice to see you this morning
this cock up, if the bloke just said sorry fella's computer cocked up, it would at least makes things a little better
JACQUI
Nope don't know anyone that's got a letter as yet
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Ross Miller
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11 September 2010
12:4069940Like Barry says this is nothing particularly new and frankly was always an issue waiting to "blow up" once they stopped asking the majority of us to fill in annual tax returns. It appears that it is principally people who have changed jobs, particularly where they move across the standard rate-higher rate threshold that are impacted most by this.
Yes more people will get rebates than demands but given the demands are estimated to be on average 3 times the value of the rebates the state will still raise more money than it pays back.
"Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today." - James Dean
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While loving someone deeply gives you courage" - Laozi
11 September 2010
15:3169952We will all continue to moan about taxes!! Even when they are fair!! But the arrogance and lack of grace of that "civil" servant was a real own goal.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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11 September 2010
19:3870000it is all ok now, the permament secretary has suddenly remembered to apologise!!
to me the supreme irony is that our taxes pay his massive salary and luxury office.
Guest 653- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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12 September 2010
06:2870028Yes indeed Howard, that's exactly right.
The Government aren't wealth creators, they're wealth takers and it's our wealth they are taking - just like the MPs and their expenses, it's our money.
Roger
Keith Sansum1- Location: london
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12 September 2010
07:1370043ROGER
Yes and will continue to do so
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