Lez Pawl wrote:
"John Burke" wrote in message
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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.

someone has got to pay for all our troops overseas...
someone has got to pay for all the banker's bonuses...