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P800T
Further to previous comments, just received a P800T for a case where the 2011/12 SA return was filed in August 2012 and a repayment made. The P800T shows estimated figures for interest and dividends. We will now have to spend time contacting client and arranging for either the cheque to be returned to HMRC or a refund made by the client.
"According to HMRC's website...
...it is important to check your P800 calculation and contact the Revenue straight away if there are any issues. "" """
Which translates as
"we have no idea if it will be right or wrong, the whole point of self-assessment is that YOU have to do OUR job for us, silly!"
Estimated Figures in P800T
My understanding is that HMRC are under instructions that calculations should not be issued with estimated figures of interest or other income in them.
They are clearly ignoring this, as they attempt to reduce the number of cases on their worklists before they are unable to do them when the new year is rolled over.
It just shows the impact of expecting staff to do more work in less time with few resources.
Penalty
Presumably a P800T counts as a HMRC assessment. So if the taxpayer fails to notify HMRC of any error in the assessment within 30 days, they could presumably render themselved liable to a penalty under schedule 24 FA07.
I wonder if any particularly brazen inspector has chanced his arm on that one yet?!
Not so
This point (whether P800 an assessment) was considered in Clark [2011] UKFTT 302 TC but from memory overturned by the Upper Tribunal but cannot find the decision to confirm that.
P800T is it an assessment?
Not according to HMRC - there were those Tribunal cases, and HMRC got the cases thrown out on the grounds that the assessment was the Notice of Coding in which the underpayment was charged. Can't remember the name, but was discussed in Taxation Mag so if you search the index you should find it.
Slight own goal for HMRC there if they've got problems with repayments being wrongly issued and they're saying the P800 is merely an administrative convenience....
Which means there's no deadline for a response from the Taxpayer to a P800 and they can't enforce it. Oh look, another own goal
The route they're now taking if the taxpayer ignores it and there's tax owing - is to issue the P800, then if there isn't any response from the taxpayer, to issue a Self Assessment Return for completion, thus neatly bringing the usually unrepresented taxpayer into self assessment for penalties & interest. For tax that's owed because HMRC haven't done their jobs properly (yes I recognise the staffing issues and I'm not hammering staff here, I'm unimpressed with top level HMRC policy decisions that led to this fiasco).
Difficult to know how they can resolve the double repayment issue - by the sounds of it, most of those affected have already self-assessed, and whilst they'll have a legal obligation to repay any wrong additional overpayment, in practical terms, I wouldn't be too confident that taxpayers would realise what was going on - represented or otherwise unless they get someone who does know pointing it out to them.
P800T
I had a P800T AND repayment issued for a client who had been issued with, but not yet filed, his 2011/12Tax Return - he became self employed during the year so the Revenue couldn't possibly have known his full tax situation....
P800T
This happens when you , as agent, know the UTR and file a tax return but do not tell HMRC that's what you intend to do i.e HMRC have not flagged the taxpayer as a Self Assessment case because at some time earlier HMRC have taken the taxpayer out of self assessment.
Really the self assessment computer system should tell NPS that it's received a self assessment tax return - that seems an easy programme to write to me
P800T
In the case I referred to the tax payer had correctly registered with the Revenue, been issued with a UTR and had a notice to file several months previously...
But he isn't the only case we've had where taxpayers were issued with a NTF and then received a P800T.
P800T
Hey, how many suppliers do you know who give their "customers" refunds to which they are not entitled? Unfortunately, the Theft Act 1968 requires your client to tell HMRC and repay the money. But I wonder if they could charge for their time and costs including postage, perhaps deducting these before making payment.
P800T
I've also received plenty of these. One commentator said that HMRC were now paying his fee for sorting the matter out. How do you go about claiming your fees from HMRC?
P800T
We have a reverse situation.
Client who is under SA (and has been for some years) receives a calculation including jobseekers in the income. Turns out that they had applied for jobseekers but had been turned down, However HMRC had used the amount applied for as an "estimate" of income received......
Pretty tricky on several levels and considering a fomal complaint.....
Role on RTI
Can you imagine the sheer efficiency of the [***] up department when this hits?
[***] up was a customs derived expression too! ho ho
you could say they invented it.
On a serious note we have seen PAYE P800 repayments dating back to 2005/06 suddenly appearing, haven't appealed (for obvious reasons LOL) but did wonder whether the normal time limits had expired or is this HMRC admitting they have been negligent?
or is it just a homer ism ?
Claiming your fees from HMRC
In reply to rhysharris, you make a separate itemised invoice to your customer for all the unnecessary work that HMRC caused you to undertake and you ask your customer to pay this. Once the bill is paid you suitably receipt the original invoice and then send that to HMRC in confirmation of the financial loss suffered by your customer. Assuming that HMRC agree that it is all their fault they will then send a cheque to your customer to cover their fees to you.
HMRC stipulate that the fees must be reasonable which means that they are a true reflection of the time you have spent at your normal hourly rate. I have never had a problem with this as my fees have been honestly charged, nevertheless, sometimes they run into seveal hunderds of pounds to cover the work done in correcting HMRC's errors. If HMRC refuse to pay the fees, then take the matter to the Adjudicator's Office.
P800T
I have had several cases like this - have usually been able to nip them in the bud by ensuring that the client does not bank the erroneous refund and then sorting the mess out with HMRC afterwards.
Surely it shouldn't be too difficult for HMRC's systems to put a bar on the issue of P800T forms in years when there is also an SA record? Or am I just being naive?
Yes, has happened to one of my clients
HMRC had incorrectly not issued a 2012 tax return even although the client was still self employed and HMRC had not been informed otherwise.
P800T demand
My panicky retired little-old-lady client has just received a P800T for 2009-10 showing tax chargeable of nil but an underpayment of £2,533 due to a tax refund issued.
The refund was claimed on an R40 which included a triviality pension lump sum - fully taxed. This was completely omitted from the P800T.
Quote from the Agents' helpline 'Sometimes these things aren't joined up' - But at least the phone call only took five minutes and I'm promised a revised P800T to confirm no tax due.
Shame about the frightened client though.