Lez Pawl wrote:
"MM" wrote in message
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I've just been on the phone to the HMRC since I received this morning
two revised tax notices for 6th April 2009 to 5th April 2010. These
new codes meant that I would have to pay 20% of tax on my private
pensions, but, as I pointed out to the HMRC, I do not receive income
in total that is more than my personal allowance (by far). My details
haven't changed in three years, either, yet the HMRC computer still
issued these revised tax codes to give it, wrongly, the benefit of
20% tax.

The assistant checked my details through the computer and changed the
tax codes again,so that I no longer pay tax on these pensions, as has
been the case since 2006. When I asked the assistant how these errors
had occurred, she simply said, umming and ahhing, well, the computer
is supposed to calculate the codes automatically, but somehow it
failed this time.

Really ****es me off that they can get such a fundamental thing
wrong. Still, I suppose it's good that they work on Saturdays.

MM

a friends revised code said he owed tax on £12K unearned income from
his other employment when he has no other employment. Apparently HMRC
added this to other peoples codes as well.

Having read this, I've returned again to the HMRC notification I recently
received.

It informed me that I owe tax on a sum of £532 which, although a
comparatively small amount to worry about, is impossible for me to
recognise.

They only reference this sum vaguely as being owed "from a previous tax
year" also adding "you may remember us telling you about this before". This
is absolutely the first I've heard of it though.

I was going to ignore it as trivial but I think I'll write now and ask them
to be more specific.