The Taxman cometh!

It obviously varies from office to office. After submitting my figures to the tax man, I was surprised to receive a letter saying, although there was a small underpayment (unspecified) they were not going to adjust my coding to collect it. They also wrote that they would not provide a document showing their calculations unless I insisted. I thought this a very common sense approach, why spend money on collecting    and documenting a small amount. It clearly isn't a universal policy however.

It obviously varies from office to office. After submitting my figures to the tax man, I was surprised to receive a letter saying, although there was a small underpayment (unspecified) they were not going to adjust my coding to collect it. They also wrote that they would not provide a document showing their calculations unless I insisted. I thought this a very common sense approach, why spend money on collecting    and documenting a small amount. It clearly isn't a universal policy however.

Because they'd already done the calculation and could have simply appended it to that letter, to avoid having to deal with your potential reply asking for the calculations and then having to send it separately.......I would say.

Why write to tell you there has been an underpayment and then not tell you how much? Why not just write it off and not bother writing at all?

Civil service mentality.......always trying to make a job out of nothing.....

It obviously varies from office to office. After submitting my figures to the tax man, I was surprised to receive a letter saying, although there was a small underpayment (unspecified) they were not going to adjust my coding to collect it. They also wrote that they would not provide a document showing their calculations unless I insisted. I thought this a very common sense approach, why spend money on collecting    and documenting a small amount. It clearly isn't a universal policy however.

Because they'd already done the calculation and could have simply appended it to that letter, to avoid having to deal with your potential reply asking for the calculations and then having to send it separately.......I would say.

Why write to tell you there has been an underpayment and then not tell you how much? Why not just write it off and not bother writing at all?

Civil service mentality.......always trying to make a job out of nothing.....

The letter had my new tax code, so they would have been sending it anyway, there were no additional bits of paper. When I have been sent the calculations before, these have always come separate to the new code and from a different section of the tax office.

It obviously varies from office to office. After submitting my figures to the tax man, I was surprised to receive a letter saying, although there was a small underpayment (unspecified) they were not going to adjust my coding to collect it. They also wrote that they would not provide a document showing their calculations unless I insisted. I thought this a very common sense approach, why spend money on collecting    and documenting a small amount. It clearly isn't a universal policy however.

Because they'd already done the calculation and could have simply appended it to that letter, to avoid having to deal with your potential reply asking for the calculations and then having to send it separately.......I would say.

Why write to tell you there has been an underpayment and then not tell you how much? Why not just write it off and not bother writing at all?

Civil service mentality.......always trying to make a job out of nothing.....

The letter had my new tax code, so they would have been sending it anyway, there were no additional bits of paper. When I have been sent the calculations before, these have always come separate to the new code and from a different section of the tax office.

My point exactly.......

A number of years ago the tax office kept changing OHs tax code, despite nothing changing. He then got a letter saying that he owed them £1500 in underpaid tax as you can imagine this came as a shock. The OH disputed it and after many(and I do mean many) phone calls and correspondence they agreed that he didn't owe anything, in fact it was them that owed him the money. OH was at the time doing his accountancy course at the college,  that term was the tax part to this day he still has all the paperwork relating to it

Recently, I haven't had too much problem with HMRC. A while back though, they managed to cock up OH's tax assessment for six years out of seven. Having a financial and mumber crunching background, I'm able to keep them on their toes. That may not be the case for some poor little old lady.

Recently, I haven't had too much problem with HMRC. A while back though, they managed to cock up OH's tax assessment for six years out of seven. Having a financial and mumber crunching background, I'm able to keep them on their toes. That may not be the case for some poor little old lady.

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