Just Received a 'Check of Self Assessment'

pipscot

bleachie wrote: »

When I called the Tax officer he kept saying I needed to pay £522.

Thanks for clearing things up for me, the sum £800 makes sense to me now. I will check my records when I get home. I remember paying £350 to them back in Jan 2009 (I'm guessing for tax year 2008).

Thanks.

If you keep being asked for the £522, make sure to explain to them that their own records show that it has been paid and that you have a P60 proving it also.

You'd need to check what this £350 relates to (e.g. it could be for 2007/2008 or the 2008/2009 tax year).

tyllwyd is right - from the tax office's point of view, you told them you earned £3000 in 2008/2009 but they then matched you with a PAYE record showing a further £9682 and from their point of view you have underdeclared your income for that period.

Hopefully you will get it sorted out now! :):):)

chrismac1

Have you been sent something in writing called an Assessment? The reason I ask this is that I have a couple of clients who've been sent "Calculations" and / or had these sorts of discussions with HMRC about various tax years and tax they supposedly owe. My advice to these clients - which now dates back to Aug 10 and Oct 10 - was to sit tight and await an Assessment, at which point I would start to point out the flaws in the "Calculations" of which there were quite a few - naturally, as this is Her Majesty's Right Cokkk-ups we're talking about!

To date no such Assessments have been received, in each case the tax supposedly due is over £2k. I have a feeling these Assessments will not be seeing the light of day - either because someone in HMRC realises there are flaws in the "Calculations", or (more likely in my view) due to general incompetence and mismanagement which is the operational standard within HMRC at the present time.

So, no Assessment, no tax to pay - yet. Then when the Assessment comes ideally have your arguments ready to trot out, and go in hard!