Bloody HMRC...

[Pete]

Got a letter from the today saying I owe them money, which is rubbish... trying to phone them up, but been on hold for 26 minutes now!!!      

Pete

[Yokel]

Tell them you're an MP and they'll send you a blank cheque.

[Mike Hawkins]

The HMRC reckon I owe them £400+ from last year. Each month they add about £1.80 to this bill. Great, but they will still have to wait - well, I am unemployed aren't I, not an MP!!

[Ettie]

The offer a direct debit facility where you can pay your bill over 12 months.
This includes personal and business taxes.

Unfortunately, even when you have set this up, you still get sharp letters from various tax offices demanding payment,
despite the fact that you are paying.. 

[Clevercat]

Our nightmare was with the child tax credit people, regardless of how many times we both called them offering them all information required, we still apparently owe them a grand.

I lost track of the amount of calls I made, how many minutes and pounds I wasted on calls.

In the end I think we have both given up.  *figures relating to Steve and I before separation.

[Clevercat]

The other thing I have a problem with is the CSA.    They do not seem to know their aris from their elbow.

My ex appeals against any amount they set for him to pay for his two children, he claims he is a low wage earner, which is a complete joke.    I do not want alot from him but something would be nice.

Any dealings with the CSA result in utter confusion their end, letters that contradict eachother are sent to me, different ones sent to him, the whole system is a right shambles.

You have some parents who earn pittance who genuinely want to support their kids, then you have the ones, who go abroad, lead an affluent life style, own a four bed house in a affluent part of Town, plus let out another house, bla bla bla, who claims to be on a low wage...... nice new cars on the drive.

Sorry, rant over!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lisagill]

I recieved my child tax credit renewal and promtly rung them with all the info they needed and even told them that my eldest was staying on at matravers for the sixth form and the lady on the other end went through all that i had told them and we said our goodbyes BUT a week later i get my award notice telling me that as my eldest was leaving school to go to work (no i said he was going on to sixth form at his presesnt school didn't i?) i would not be recieving any money for him as from the 31/8/09, so again i phone them and the woman then again records that my eldest staying on at school for another 2 years, so i would be sent a new award, the next day i recieve a award dating 4 days before the last award saying that i have a new baby and would be recieving more money (no beth is a year old and that award was stopped in april) so on the phone again to explain that my daughter was 14 months old and my 15 yr old was staying at school for another 2 years.
Today i recieve yet another notice to say that i have been overpaid and that i owe then money because my eldest left school last year WHAT THE HELL IS GOING ON? so i have now changed my tone of voice and phoned them again to shout to the deaf people who answer the phones ( well they must be deaf cos i have had to explain 4 times in 1 week about my kids), i eagerly await my next award to see if i am going to get any money or whether i owe them £1,000,000 because i have been honest about everything over all the years and never lied about my earnings. WATCH THIS SPACE!!!!!!!!!

[cuthbert-murray]

my cousin who lives in Australia emigrated 6 years ago from the UK to Oz, she contacted the family allowance departnent to notify them they where moving abroad and no longer would eligible for child benefit, 6 years on and hundreds of letters they refuse to stop paying into her account and she has amassed quite a bit as you can imagine,I wrote a letter for her to the department involved and still they keep on paying it

[Ettie]

i have now changed my tone of voice and phoned them again to shout to the deaf people who answer the phones

[Pete]

We've had so many threatening letters from them recently, from court action, to bailiffs, to selling our goods at auction it's got beyond a joke. We've now written a letter of complaint to them telling them if it carries on we'll sue them for harrassment!

Pete

[Yokel]

I can rival all of you for complication - I pay tax in two countries.