Admittedly my DH's income is slightly complicated. A state pension, a couple of local government pensions and a part time, (work as needed) job, which means that some months he earns a good amount and sometimes earns nothing. Retired from a well paid part time , but not fixed income, job just pre Covid. But every penny he has ever earned is PAYE. A couple of years he got a tax demand for literally thousands of pounds. He passed all his paper work to an accountant he knows who confirmed the amount. DH cashed in much of our savings to get the demand paid off. It had reached a stage when quite literally a few times every week we would get a different letter with a different tax code and a different conclusion.
Last week via his accountant who had been working on his tax returns, he heard that he had overpaid his tax and was due a healthy sum back. Which would make a huge difference to us. Today he has had a letter from the tax man saying my DH owed them yet more money! This letter was sent only a couple of days after they would have received his tax returns from the accountant.
I figure that the HMRC need taking in hand. They are the ones with the training, the experience, the qualifications and the presumably extremely advanced computer systems. Yet they make things more and more complicated for us mere mortals. With their ever changing tax codes and letters of "explanation"And we are pilloried and treated as criminals if we don't get it right. My DH is highly intelligent, but is absolutely at a loss and at the end of his tether. He hates the way they make him feel that it is all his fault.
Is anyone else fed up with HMRC. Has anyone taken them to task, and won?
Well Labour’s “patriotism” didn’t last very long, did it? 🇬🇧