Friend not paying income tax in retirement

yangptangkipperbang

RichandJ wrote: »

I was nice to a newbie. As per regs. But people who jump in as a newbie & post "such things" get on my thungas.

I know, I was there, as I made clear*. But the internet is a marvellous tool for self expression, is it not ?

* I could make it clearer but I've had another scintillating day putting right what underpaid administrators have f ed up & I can't be arrised.

Be careful - he might be a policeman :rotfl::rotfl:

hugheskevi

So effectively you are saying most Police Officers retired fraudulently and you were party to this or were you only doing as you were told. Why did you not speak out about it.Maybe you should report it now or go to the papers.

I doubt the papers would be very interested in an old story about abuse of public service pension schemes - it was widespread and commonplace. For example, as this Parliamentary briefing says on page 20:

According to Home Office statistics and the national survey, between 1985 and 1992 only 29% of firefighters retired ordinarily, whereas 71% retired early...in four brigades more than 90% of all retirements in the period were taken early due to injury or ill-health.

A particularly worrying aspect of the number of early retirements is the number of occasions on which early retirements on medical or injury grounds appear to coincide with the times when, under the terms of the pension scheme, early retirement is particularly beneficial.

DaveTheMus

garybarlowsbeard wrote: »

It's actually my grandfather-in-law, certainly not me. Not sure why I said friend really...thought the tax man could be watching on here! Anyway, hopefully it's taken at source. Not really my place to look into it or ask too many questions but my wife mentioned in passing the other day that her granddad didn't pay any tax and her dad didn't know why so thought I'd look into it a bit. Obviously don't want him to be hit with some massive tax bill in his 80s!

might eat into [STRIKE]your[/STRIKE] your girlfriends inheritance....

bigadaj

hugheskevi wrote: »

I doubt the papers would be very interested in an old story about abuse of public service pension schemes - it was widespread and commonplace. For example, as this Parliamentary briefing says on page 20:

Well compared to tv presenters, Politicians and djs of a few decades ago they actually come out comparatively well!