Make sure you pay your tax bill or they will be after your house!

[Stephen Blair]

I feel this is going round in circles.

 

Am out.

[renewablejohn]

With such a reduction in long term HMRC staff common sense has gone out the window and your left with a lot of incompetent staff who can only manage by the simple tax manual. Unfortunately tax is not simple and legitimate tax avoidance is now being classed as if it was tax evasion.

[egnsean]

I rang them last year as I was struggling to pay what i owed, they point blank refused to give me a payment plan and one time when I rang to check they had had a payment as it hadnt been credited on my tax statement I got a half hour lecture concluding with asking me how much my van was worth, pointe dout if I sold my van they would'nt be getting the rest of the money as I wouldnt be able to work, worst of it all was my accountant told me I would get the tax back as I had made a loss the year after and then told me I wouldnt get it after all and charged me £600 for the privilege, needless to say looking for a new accountant for this year

i sympathize

with you but a few on this forum are classic cases of There are non so blind as those that don't want to see

[Chunkymunky]

I would imagine its more likely to be used on people who owe a huge amount with no obvious means of paying.

[egnsean]

I would imagine its more likely to be used on people who owe a huge amount with no obvious means of paying.

I wish you were right but fear your not:001_smile:

[renewablejohn]

I would imagine it will be used first on the thousands of working tax credit cases which HMRC paid out to much and are now trying to recover by fair means or foul. Fortunately a large quantity of those cases are standing there ground and requiring HMRC to prove that the claim had been fraudulent or write off the amount.

[egnsean]

I would imagine it will be used first on the thousands of working tax credit cases which HMRC paid out to much and are now trying to recover by fair means or foul. Fortunately a large quantity of those cases are standing there ground and requiring HMRC to prove that the claim had been fraudulent or write off the amount.

Well said John, :thumbup::thumbup:

[Andy Collins]

To clarify, my dad owed HMRCE some money, not a huge amount. He didn't pay it. He buried his head in the sand and hoped they would go away, they didn't. After his death, I found multiple carrier bags stuffed with letters from the

Tax office, from bailiffs, from solicitors, from the bankruptcy court. This was the sort of Dad you put on a pedestal, I thought a lot of him. I could have lent him the money initially, but he ended up having to hand over the deeds to his house, because he wouldn't ask for help. He was allowed to stay in the house, till his death, it would then be taken by the State in lieu of the debt (still unpaid). We had to fight tooth and nail for two years, pay off all the costs and interests on the money too, and a team of solicitors to beat the system, which was totally stacked against us. I did win in time.

Insurances, yes make sure you have it, how can you not? When I was in deep crap healthwise I was so glad I had insurance to protect my income, it was one less worry to wind me up.

[Johny Walker]

To clarify, my dad owed HMRCE some money, not a huge amount. He didn't pay it. He buried his head in the sand and hoped they would go away, they didn't. After his death, I found multiple carrier bags stuffed with letters from the

Tax office, from bailiffs, from solicitors, from the bankruptcy court. This was the sort of Dad you put on a pedestal, I thought a lot of him. I could have lent him the money initially, but he ended up having to hand over the deeds to his house, because he wouldn't ask for help. He was allowed to stay in the house, till his death, it would then be taken by the State in lieu of the debt (still unpaid). We had to fight tooth and nail for two years, pay off all the costs and interests on the money too, and a team of solicitors to beat the system, which was totally stacked against us. I did win in time.

Insurances, yes make sure you have it, how can you not? When I was in deep crap healthwise I was so glad I had insurance to protect my income, it was one less worry to wind me up.

 

andy was this a long term debt that was owed,

[Andy Collins]

3 years before his death, originally, interest accrued over about a five year period til we managed to get the house back.