tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156218446024820676.post3153314563986957334..comments2023-05-17T10:38:12.901+00:00Comments on TaxBuzz for the Tax Advice Network: The PAYE tax system is now working as it should...Mark Leehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11524316185528362603noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156218446024820676.post-3075121219877265662010-09-12T16:32:47.129+00:002010-09-12T16:32:47.129+00:00Thanks Bill and Sam.
One further thought. For all...Thanks Bill and Sam.<br /><br />One further thought. For all those commentators who suggest that the underpaid tax should be written off (whether by concession or otherwise). What about all the overpaid tax? Should HMRC just ignore that too? 3 times as many people will get a refund as will have more tax to pay. And without the new computer system they could have been waiting for their refunds for much longer.Mark Leehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11524316185528362603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156218446024820676.post-36773749392538105422010-09-12T12:12:04.017+00:002010-09-12T12:12:04.017+00:00I was amazed when 'expert' Martin Lewis we...I was amazed when 'expert' Martin Lewis went on BBC Breakfast telling everyone to invoke the A19 concession. Surely one needs only a grasp of the English language rather than the vagaries of the UK tax system to realise that a concession, is, well, concessionary. And that's before we even start think about <i>Wilkinson</i>...Samhttp://www.samhart.co.uknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7156218446024820676.post-77188799870602535732010-09-07T14:39:11.515+00:002010-09-07T14:39:11.515+00:00Where does Sky get it's experts from?
The wor...Where does Sky get it's experts from? <br />The worst I heard this morning was some lady (note Financial Expert and not shown as Tax expert) who first of all said that ESCA19 would be appropriate if the taxpayer had given all their information to their employer and then instanced the potential car benefit missed out of the coding. <br /><br />Let's hope that taxpayers don't follow her advice and appeal everything on the basis that they supplied everything to their employer. Sure fired application refusals will follow from that gaffe. <br /><br />Only starting points for ESCA19 are<br />(a) all information provably provided to HMRC in time<br />(b) HMRC failed to make timely and appropriate use of the information for 12 months or more<br />(c) the taxpayer could show that it was reasonable for him/her to believe that their tax liabilities were fully in order <br />among other things.<br /><br />How many of the taxpayers were employees who got their notices of coding and (in spite of being asked to on the notices) didn't bother checking them. Or if they checked them hoped that they wouldn't get caught.<br /><br />I can just see HMRC servants (civil ones before this latest debacle) even more snowed under from piles of unworked appeals based on all sort of biased "not my fault Gov" scenarios.<br /><br />How much is all that going to cost and I am confident that it will more than wipe out any perceived Treasury "windfall". <br /><br />Never mind at least the TAN specialists will be able to put them right. Maybe Mark could provide a template for all the possible "sustainable ESC A19" appeals facts. Never mind the facts just gum up the engine and HMRC will eventually issue revised guidance to make it even more difficult to get away with your tax duesBill Stevensonhttp://bill_taxadvice@btinternet.comnoreply@blogger.com