THE TAX DEBATE.
Thu Sep 09, 2010 1:29 pm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11244776
Cheeky sods, they mess up and expect us to pay up, not only that they charge 3% interest to.
Cheeky sods, they mess up and expect us to pay up, not only that they charge 3% interest to.
Re: THE TAX DEBATE.
Thu Sep 09, 2010 1:41 pm
Shower of wankers. My mrs has been fighting with them for 16 months to get last years money. Orignally she was advised she was due over £800 and today a cheque for £300 has arrived. Got to wait for the seperate letter explaining why now.
Couldn't run a raffle neither they could.
Couldn't run a raffle neither they could.
Re: THE TAX DEBATE.
Thu Sep 09, 2010 2:44 pm
nobby wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11244776
Cheeky sods, they mess up and expect us to pay up, not only that they charge 3% interest to.
Dai, My Opinion, Their Mistake, SO THEY SHOULD LOOSE OUT, NOT US.
Re: THE TAX DEBATE.
Thu Sep 09, 2010 2:58 pm
Forever Blue wrote:nobby wrote:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11244776
Cheeky sods, they mess up and expect us to pay up, not only that they charge 3% interest to.
Dai, My Opinion, Their Mistake, SO THEY SHOULD LOOSE OUT, NOT US.
Totally agree, its crazy
Re: THE TAX DEBATE.
Thu Sep 09, 2010 3:09 pm
If I charged one of my customers £50 for an advert and then phoned them up 2 days later and said it will be £75 because I made an error, they would say "not likely, your mistake, I've paid what you asked me to" and I would have to honour the money that I charged them originally. the same should apply here
Re: THE TAX DEBATE.
Thu Sep 09, 2010 5:54 pm
The department has cut 30,000 jobs since HMRC was formed in 2005, resulting in one million pieces of post going unopened and 17 million ‘open cases’ – accounts where there are outstanding queries – not being dealt with.
HMRC sent out letters to 1.4 million people this week telling them they had underpaid their tax and needed to make up the difference because of a very expensive computer error.
The department introduced its new computer system at a cost of about £389 million in spring 2009, using it as an opportunity to justify job cuts, but now it has failed there are no longer the staff to pick up the pieces.
Nearly six million people across the UK are to be told over the next few months that they have paid the wrong amount of tax collected through the pay as you earn (PAYE) system.
More than 40 million calls, almost half of all those to HMRC enquiry centres, went unanswered last year because the department does not have enough staff.
With cuts of at least 25% expected through the government’s draconian budget and spending review it is hard to envisage the situation for taxpayers getting any better.
There is an alternative: tens of billions of pounds of extra revenue could come by collecting the tax that is owed. Tackling the tax gap, which now stands at more than £120 billion a year, would help to plug the hole in the public finances.
HMRC sent out letters to 1.4 million people this week telling them they had underpaid their tax and needed to make up the difference because of a very expensive computer error.
The department introduced its new computer system at a cost of about £389 million in spring 2009, using it as an opportunity to justify job cuts, but now it has failed there are no longer the staff to pick up the pieces.
Nearly six million people across the UK are to be told over the next few months that they have paid the wrong amount of tax collected through the pay as you earn (PAYE) system.
More than 40 million calls, almost half of all those to HMRC enquiry centres, went unanswered last year because the department does not have enough staff.
With cuts of at least 25% expected through the government’s draconian budget and spending review it is hard to envisage the situation for taxpayers getting any better.
There is an alternative: tens of billions of pounds of extra revenue could come by collecting the tax that is owed. Tackling the tax gap, which now stands at more than £120 billion a year, would help to plug the hole in the public finances.