Client has just had a HMRC ‘Debt Management Field Officer’ visit. It turns out that the Feb return wasn’t submitted and he was collecting on an assessment.
Its not in dispute that the return wasn’t submitted, but my client has not received a Notice of Assessment or any debt letters.
The debt is definitely owed (the assessment isn’t too far off the correct figure), but is there anyway we can use the lack of correspondence in our favour?
Just hoping someone knows something clever ...
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What is it you're hoping to achieve? I don't think there's any way you can use HMRC's shonky practices to cancel the liability, though I think your client would have been within his rights to demand the paper correspondence/calculation before deigning to speak to, or admit, the debt collector.
What is it you're hoping to achieve?
No idea, just wondered if it could be used in any way.
