asperity Posted September 7, 2010 Report Share Posted September 7, 2010 This is government going insane: http://tinyurl.com/394hsrm With government agencies past record on IT projects why would we trust them to get it right this time? And why should we allow them to take all our salaries and then give us back an amount they deem to be correct? This is the thin end of the wedge, not even the USSR went so far! NO, NO, NO!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted September 7, 2010 Report Share Posted September 7, 2010 "Give unto Ceasar, what is Ceasar's" Sounds like an incentive for the "cash in hand" black economy?! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted September 7, 2010 Report Share Posted September 7, 2010 GREAT BIG NO FROM ME TOO !! How on earth would they cope with calculating every working persons wages and then ensuring it was paid to the right bank account of the right person on the right day. THEY WOULDN'T. Once computer glitch or system crash and the whole country would be without wages. You know what... IF... they ever decided to do this I'll pack my job in just to spite them Why donlt they just make sure everone HAS the right tax code and make sure all payroll departments use the HMRC's online central calculator/payment software that already exists. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted September 7, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2010 Because government is incompetent generally Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lt Kije Posted September 7, 2010 Report Share Posted September 7, 2010 Neither for or against, if it works it would be better than what we have now Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted September 7, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2010 Far better for everyone to receive their full salary, and then pay the government what you think they deserve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted September 7, 2010 Report Share Posted September 7, 2010 Now there's a suggestion I do like Do you think it would be cheeky to pay them nothing at all and then ask for some form of refund aswell Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted September 7, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2010 Not at all!! It's worth a try, thats the way THEY do it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted September 7, 2010 Report Share Posted September 7, 2010 Everyone take note just incase and we can all submit at the same time just to confuse the system after all back in January?? it was also reported that a lot of the tax offices were closing as a cost cutting exercise !! Which also reminds me... apparently after the various closures the hmrc's major tax investigations unit was to be based in Warrington. Guess we are all buggered then unless of course they rely on Warrington's public transport network Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peter T Posted September 7, 2010 Report Share Posted September 7, 2010 They didn't close the one in town. Just made it difficult to access. Appointments only. Life was a lot easier when you could just walk in and get things sorted. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
observer Posted September 7, 2010 Report Share Posted September 7, 2010 Interesting anecdote on the HMRC: a firm received notice of a financial penalty, for not posting in their PAYE info on time. The firm rang the address shown on the HMRC notice and got a discontinued number. Eventually, they spoke to someone at the HMRC, who informed them that the returns had been sent to the wrong address. "But that's the address on the notice"! "Errm, they must be using the old stationary still, they've now moved to N/Ireland" (said without even an apology). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
asperity Posted September 7, 2010 Author Report Share Posted September 7, 2010 Get a tax accountant. Money well spent Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dizzy Posted September 8, 2010 Report Share Posted September 8, 2010 You forgot to mention the change in hmrc's bank account details for online payments a while ago Obs..... Our got paid into their bank account, which turned out to be their old bank account, and was lost for a short while but then reappeared. And also one of our year end payments was said to have been late but had accidentally been allocated by THEM to the next year.... but they did find and correct it and put it back to the correct year after we questioned it. Best one was when we submitted a our P35's etc online. We got a whopping ?400 fine for being late.. even though we had done it online. They said we hadn't but we knew we had so we tried to resubmit online again but it said we HAD ALREADY DONE IT so couldn't do it again. Even their techies couldn't understand it all as one computer said 'no' the other said 'yes'. Anyway they did reduce the fine to ?100 after we sumitted it AGAIN manually and contested the fine with a detailed account of the whole saga. Nice of them eh We never did pay the ?100 fine though.. only just realised that Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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