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Esc a19 refused help with review please

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  • chrismac1
    chrismac1 Posts: 2,585 Forumite
    edited 24 January 2012 at 6:48PM
    Well done! I am greatly relieved you have turned out not to be a criminal mastermind hell-bent on defrauding the UK tax system.

    Is it possible to send humble pie down a fibre optic cable as I have just baked some?
    Hideous Muddles from Right Charlies
  • chrismac1
    chrismac1 Posts: 2,585 Forumite
    Every time someone on this forum tells an HMRC victim to "give up, it's all your fault and HMRC are super-efficient and brilliant" I am going to bump this thread.
    Hideous Muddles from Right Charlies
  • Pennywise
    Pennywise Posts: 13,468 Forumite
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    chrismac1 wrote: »
    Every time someone on this forum tells an HMRC victim to "give up, it's all your fault and HMRC are super-efficient and brilliant" I am going to bump this thread.

    Yep, my sentiments exactly. There's another long thread where one of the usual HMRC stooges quotes "insanity is doing the same thing over again" when the advice to the OP was to keep writing and appealing until someone with a brain dealt with the problem. Lo and behold, the OP came back a few weeks later with the good news that they had indeed kept trying and got the tax written off. I noted that the HMRC stooge never bothered apologising for their bad advice to accept the initial rejection. Funny how the HMRC stooges are quick to reply and quick to back eachother up (sometimes a matter of minutes - you don't suppose one or more of them use multiple identities on here do you?) yet are absent when they are proved wrong!
  • chrismac1
    chrismac1 Posts: 2,585 Forumite
    I'm not on here to get new clients, I am on here for the same reason I started on here 2 years ago. There was a thread where a victim posted up and got about six posts back saving "Give up and pay your taxes" and they incensed me because I could see the victim had a strong case. That guy ended up getting the tax written off, so have countless others on here.

    Any HMRC stooge who wants me to pack in on here needs to give more balanced replies to the victims.
    Hideous Muddles from Right Charlies
  • Mikeyorks
    Mikeyorks Posts: 10,377 Forumite
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    chrismac1 wrote: »
    Every time someone on this forum tells an HMRC victim to "give up, it's all your fault and HMRC are super-efficient and brilliant" I am going to bump this thread.

    On another thread :
    chrismac1 wrote:
    I think the OP makes a good point, worth testing out in Esc A19. It's not clear to me how any right minded person can say that the OP did not have "reasonable belief that his/her tax affairs were in order" when HMRC are busy paying him or her a tax refund.

    ...... I will be bumping the thread from 2 days ago where everyone was posting about what a prat I am and the situation turned out as I predicted and HMRC tossed their hand in.

    ...... so this is the thread that proves your point about ESC A19 and the benefits of the ad nauseam approach?

    Unfortunately - other than the heading and the OP attempting it - it has nothing to do with ESC A19. There's an error on the income shown on the P800 as clarified by the OP in his later posts. After sending off the DWP P45 that was corrected and the outstanding sum cleared. ESC A19 didn't enter into it. Either at the start - or the end :
    hwh wrote:
    got a letter today saying i now own nothing they made a mistake
    If you want to test the depth of the water .........don't use both feet !
  • chrismac1
    chrismac1 Posts: 2,585 Forumite
    The common theme here is "HMRC screaming howler".
    Hideous Muddles from Right Charlies
  • Mikeyorks
    Mikeyorks Posts: 10,377 Forumite
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    Even that's probably just your usual distorted opinion. Just as likely to be the P45 from DWP.
    If you want to test the depth of the water .........don't use both feet !
  • chrismac1
    chrismac1 Posts: 2,585 Forumite
    Only one thing most people need to know about this thread:

    HMRC 0 Taxpayer 1
    Hideous Muddles from Right Charlies
  • antonic
    antonic Posts: 1,978 Forumite
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    **** yawn *****
    chrismac1 wrote: »
    Only one thing most people need to know about this thread:

    HMRC 0 Taxpayer 1
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