Summary
Yet more blunders, but the taxman tries to shift the blame G. M. W. writes: I am semi-retired, receiving a small occupational pension but also topping up my income through part-time work. I have completed all forms required by Revenue & Customs and I am taxed under Pay As You Earn. I received a tax calculation showing that I owed Pounds 1,262 for 2008-09. I asked the Revenue to write this off as I had not caused the arrears, but this was rejected and the same letter told me I now owed Pounds 2,614, to include 2009-10 tax. A few days later my pay slip from my part-time employer, North East Lincolnshire Council, showed that, without warning, tax of Pounds 820 had been deducted from my pay of Pounds 1,391.
IF the people who run Revenue & Customs had sat down and decided to go gunning for pensioners, they could not have come up with a better system than the one that has resulted in a vast failure to collect tax and a huge number of pensioners receiving frightening letters saying they owe hundreds or thousands of pounds.See the full content of this document
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Pensioners in Fear of Shameless Revenue [Scot Region]
At one point in your struggle you even offered to pay off the arrears at Pounds 100 a month. But when the taxman eventually replied, you were simply told to fi...
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