[Closed] The Tax man got it wrong....

I’m inclined to stick it somewhere safe in case he wants it back again. Wouldn’t you think that in this day & age they’d get things right 1st time? Or am I expecting too much?

Self assessment? Anything changed over the tax year?

I'd also suggest self-assessment. I assume any variances are  caused by your change of career?

My situation didn’t change all year and I told HMRC about all my benefits from day 1. Apparently I still managed to underpay by about £5k. How can it go so wrong!?

I've only ever had excellent service from HMRC, so can't complain at all.

PAYE but apparently I underpaid for a for a couple years and the decided just before Xmas to let me know I owed them a few £k. Lovely.

I assume any variances are  caused by your change of career?

Aye it will be that Col, left HMPS last September but still don't know how I overpaid £90 around that time.

PAYE but apparently I underpaid for a for a couple years and the decided just before Xmas to let me know I owed them a few £k. Lovely.

Great eh Drac? Perfect bloody timing!

Fairly common, I’ve had it a couple of times each both ways. Just alters in your next years tax codes normally. Think accountants reported mine incorrectly to start though.

I also paid company car tax for 12 months when I didn’t have a car, that was a cheque for a couple of k well received.

I’ve only ever had excellent service from HMRC, so can’t complain at all.

Do you work abroad or something, you know, so the AbuDhabi tax office sorts yours out?

Aye it will be that Col, left HMPS last September but still don’t know how I overpaid £90 around that time.

Your tax free allowance is calculated from the start of the year, in the end £90 is not bad for that especially if one side is a bit slow getting you set up on the switch.

The HMRC said my tax return was outstanding. Prettty chuffed considering I don’t remember completing one.

I may have ripped that off from the viz letterbox

I got a £12k refund for overpaid tax this year. I'm counting the days until they tell me they've made a mistake and want it back😭

Friend of mine had that, they did eventually ask for it back!

In my experience the only thing worse than trying to deal with HMRC was trying to deal with the pre-do-it-all-online DVLA. They've upped their game significantly though, so HMRC take top spot.

Most memorable was PAYE student loan repayments. SLC sent me a letter saying that HMRC had told them my student loan was cleared and so could stop paying. End of tax year HMRC told me because I'd stopped paying I owed about £3500 in back payments. They simply refused to acknowledge they might be wrong, even when I presented them with the evidence, including a £0 balance statement from SLC. In the end I had to pay an accountant to shout at them. What should have been sorted in a single phonecall took about 3 months and numerous "you've incurred a penalty for late/non payment" letters.

Most recently they've decided that I underpaid about £800 from 2016-2017, when I was PAYE. Why it's taken so long to tell me this I don't know, how I've underpaid they don't know apart from on their system it says it was actually underpayment from 2015-2016, again when I was PAYE. I've just had to suck it up safe in the knowledge that this last tax year I've overpaid significantly and will be due a refund next year. I fully expect it to take another few months of banging my head against a brick wall to get it back.

Recently started up as self employed so I'm absolutely dreading dealing with them again.

When I came back from working in France HMRC insisted that I filled a tax return every year. After the third year I got tired of filling the same as the previous year so I wrote to them and told them I was now settled in a UK job and my tax affairs were boringly simple and they agreed for me to stop filling a return. Now 25 years later thay have asked me to start again... I put it off until the last minute then went online and was amazed to find that actually it was blindingly easy. It doesn't stop me feeling resentful about it though.

Again - DIY.

In any dealings with HMRC they've always accepted my workings out as fact. I used to do this regularly for myself and I got a £1,200 rebate for my wife after spotting her tax code was wrong.

A few years ago we bought some new equiptment for our shop which resulted in us getting a VAT refund for that quarter, month or so later we got a demand threatening letter advising of possible  court action for non payment of our VAT of £0.00. Phoned them and advised the issue , they said they couldn't stop it unless we wrote in confirmation that they had made an error.......I said guess we'll see you in court then.......never heard anything else!

They're still getting it badly wrong for me - I've read far and wide on social media that, as a cyclist, I don't pay tax, but my payslip says otherwise.

Also, the shops where I buy things still haven't got the memo either - it doesn't matter how many times I show them my helmet, they still insist on charging me VAT on things.

It's almost as though cyclists do actually pay tax, but that can't be right, can it? Red faced men on the internet seem very sure of their knowledge on this one..

it doesn’t matter how many times I show them my helmet

You really shouldn't do this in public.