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Dash for cash - or just petty cash?

21st Sep 2010
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As we're all aware, HMRC is being leaned on by H M Government to pull in as much tax as possible, as soon as possible. They in turn are leaning on their collection teams to go out and collect the cash from your and my clients.

You would have thought with all the talk in the press of wealthy individuals and big corporations not paying their taxes that they would have some sort of system of prioritisation so that they target larger tax arrears first - wouldn't you?

Apparently not. One of my retired clients in a remote West Country village has just had a stroppy collector call on him to demand £200 of SA arrears. The collector was unmoved by protestations of poverty, appeared to be totally unaware that my client was already paying off his 2008/09 underpayment by extra PAYE deductions of nearly £100 per month from his modest occupational pension - indeed he went so far as to tell my client quite forcefully that no such deductions were being made, nor was such an arrangement even possible (presumably he was away when they did their PAYE training).

As it turns out the £250 was a reduced 31 July payment on account, and we have just drafted his tax return showing that he has no payments to make at all and is due a refund of £200 for 2009/10!

Yes, it's just as I suspected - the lunatics really have taken over the asylum!

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