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Chat Area => General Discussion Area => Topic started by: Terbs on 08 February 2012, 18:44:57
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What is it with the HMRC in this country......
I assume its they that have been to court with a certain football manager...cost 8 million lost.
I know this is not on the same scale, but I had a HMRC Debt Collection Dept letter today, all sorts of threatening, over non payment of tax at the Community Centre.
Bloody morons >:( ...our bank statements show quite clearly the monies were paid by our bank before the quarterly payment deadline >:(
They are half the reason the country is in a mess >:( >:( But they are NEVER in the wrong!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Ahh don't get me started.. I got an unexpected tax bill after they decided to make me self assessed on the 19th of January and then tell me (for reasons I still can't get a clear answer to) that I owe them £2000, despite being payed through PAYE with - from what I can work out - the correct tax code..
Anyway, I did the return online, paid there and then.
Yesterday, 10 days later, I look at the online portal and what does it say?
"You have overpaid by £2000.
Click here to request a refund.
You have £2000 that will become due on the 26th April.
Click here for how to pay."
Er.. whatnow? It doesn't take a genius to work out that the £2000 I sent you after you'd told me I owed £2000 was to pay said £2000, not to overpay on the previous year that's long since passed!
I called HMRC and they tell me that's normal, on the 26th April the £2000 will 'magically' be allocated against the bill - not that I believe them, I fully expect a £100 fine come the 26th for 'non payment' despite it probably still saying I've overpaid £2000....
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How many bureaucratic civil servants does it take to change a light bulb? 287.......and an electrician. :o
A £12,000pa admin assistant has noticed a light bulb is broken and a makes a written request to her boss for it to be fixed. In triplicate of course.
Her boss responds with the formation of a light bulb changing policy committee, which formalizes the setting up of a light bulb steering committee, who advise that a health and safety, tendering, contracts, inspection, management, budget, capital costs, gender awareness, equality in the work place and equal opportunities subcommittees are required.
The subcommittees are setup under the umbrella of a light bulb changing department with an a small budget of £4 million, but in these lean times, you moan a bit and just have to make do. Six months later all of the subcommittees have reported back with their recommendations, three months for all the tenders, six weeks to choose the contractor, who is told to hurry and fix the bulb and get his invoice in, otherwise they will have under-spent their budget by a £1,000 and it could be reduced by that next year. :o
The bulb changing department have noticed that 4 more bulbs have blown, so have put in a request for the quadrupling of their budget and department to reflect the increased workload. In these cost cutting times they have been told have to make do with a mere £8million, you complain a bit, moan a bit, but in the end you just have to make do. The good news is that it includes the formation of a PR department, to highlight to taxpayers the good work and value for money they are getting from the light bulb changing department and a light bulb changing helpline which is manned 24/7. Nobody is sure what it is for, but the PR committee recommended it and it does sound good. Unfortunately, as part of the budget constraints, the proposed national light bulb changing newsletter won't be sent out to every household, but there are the vital new ethnics equality awareness sub-committee, and ethnic, equality gender awareness steering committee as sadly and alarmingly, last years electrician was none of these at it must not happen again.
What happened to the girl who reported the bulb was blown, with such initiative she is head of the light bulb changing department on a salary of £102,000 last year with an indexed linked pension, but she was in charge of department of 286 people, so its fully justified. With this years expansion of the department to 518 people, her salary has increased to £152,000 with gold plated pension and a possible £50,000 performance bonus, her comment, you complain and moan a bit about these small increases, but in these lean times you just have to make do. Did she get her bonus, of course, as 4 light bulbs were changed this year, on time and within budget, a doubling of productivity, the PR department is just preparing the press release....
I bet your glad your a taxpayer. :o :o :o :o
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Brilliant. :y........and not far from the truth. ::)
http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2011/02/pfi-theres-no-great-escape-by-martin-cook/
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Many a true word spoken in jest. ;D ;D
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Tony the HMRC are the ONLY organisation in the uk that you are guilty untill you can prove you are innocent :y
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Tony the HMRC are the ONLY organisation in the uk that you are guilty untill you can prove you are innocent :y
I think John Terry might not agree with you there ;)
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HMRC = licensed Dick Turpin. >:(
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Tony the HMRC are the ONLY organisation in the uk that you are guilty untill you can prove you are innocent :y
I think John Terry might not agree with you there ;)
well if you see the tv pictures i see i would say he guilty as well :o
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HMRC always make me laugh!
I was self-employed 12 years ago and took employment and PAYE tax/NI. It took until 5 years ago for them to finally accept this and then after finally getting a letter to say they no longer required Self Assessment Forms, I was "Randomly" selected to complete one 3 months later ::) ;D
Now I've got all this to come again ::) Although this time I'm just going to let my accountant sort the whole lot for me :y :y
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TBH honest not a bad idea :y
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Tony the HMRC are the ONLY organisation in the uk that you are guilty untill you can prove you are innocent :y
I think John Terry might not agree with you there ;)
well if you see the tv pictures i see i would say he guilty as well :o
If he is to be tried in a court of law, he is innocent until declared guilty by either the magistrate or a jury ;)
John Terry may have been out of line in what he has supposed to have said but he has been hung out to dry by the Gaybook / T*atter generation and the media who jump on the bandwagon as soon as this subject is brought up >:(
Its a sad world out there :(
As for the taxman, imho if your self employed, get a accountaint who knows how to use the system because if you don't, the taxman will walk all over you ;)