HMRC can now take money from your bank account without your permission-Budget 2014

Takeaway_Addict

browneyedbazzi wrote: »

This doesn't bother me at all...I pay my taxes and have no intention to try to avoid doing so.

As for something being 'a bit off, constitutionally speaking', I don't see how it can be since the UK does not have a constitution. It may not be in keeping with the ECHR as it gives people the right to peaceful enjoyment of possessions, so it may be open to challenge - however that right is no absolute in the way that many others are.

You should work out how to avoid paying tax, why pay more when you legally don't have to?

londonTiger

just file your returns and pay your taxes on time???

nlj1520

I also have had occasions where HMRC have shown themselves to be incompetant, slow and difficult to deal with. Even trying to get through on the telephone can take a stupid amount of time. The type of things that go I have seen go wrong are usually too small to fall within this new power........wrong tax codes.
But the principle of HMRC being allowed to take money directly is APALLING to me!

flashnazia

The MP Priti Patel raised concerns about HMRC and the way it deals with people.

Members have touched on those areas. As constituency MPs, we see at first hand in our surgeries and in the letters we receive the distress and sheer misery that these mistakes and errors cause. I am exasperated by the extent and seriousness of the cases, and by the level of distress among the constituents who have come to me. Such constituents usually come to us in desperation, after experiencing tremendous difficulties in communicating with HMRC and in getting answers from it. They are the human victims of HMRC. I will draw to the House's attention some of the cases that I have come across in my 10-month tenure as a Member of Parliament

http://www.priti4witham.com/content/hm-revenue-and-customs-debate

I have come across other cases in which businesses have suffered at the hands of HMRC. One business that was applying for VAT exemption encountered nothing but excessive delays. Another case, which landed on my desk in June last year, alarms me no end. A local business received what I would describe as a generic letter from HMRC on 1 June, stating that the business was £64,000 in arrears. The letter stated that that sum had to be repaid by 14 June, even though it arrived only on 1 June. That is a significant sum of money. During that 14-day window, my constituent made a number of attempts to contact HMRC about the issue, but no one would return any calls. It was not until I intervened that HMRC finally replied. Its inability to return calls, its automated actions and its generic letters cannot be justified. It would be a shock to anyone's system to receive a notification of that nature.

Wonder if writing to her would be worthwhile? Not sure if its correct protocol though, are you supposed to write your own MP only?

MothballsWallet

flashnazia wrote: »

The MP Priti Patel raised concerns about HMRC and its wrongful hounding of businesses, only dropping their wrongful claims once the MP herself got involved.

http://www.priti4witham.com/content/hm-revenue-and-customs-debate
Wonder if writing to her would be worthwhile? Not sure if its correct protocol though, are you supposed to write your own MP only?

Does she care about the HMRC's incompetence regarding individuals as well or does she reserve her concern for business owners?

I'm cynical about politicians, as well as these police & crime commissioners, anyway.

flashnazia

MothballsWallet wrote: »

Does she care about the HMRC's incompetence regarding individuals as well or does she reserve her concern for business owners?

I'm cynical about politicians, as well as these police & crime commissioners, anyway.

If you read the piece she is talking about both. In any case, if you are a sole trader you are still an Indivudual that is being hounded.