MSE News: Couples now able to register to shift tax allowance between spouses

Doc_N

SplanK wrote: »

How is it a foul up? They say they are still testing, and releasing in batches. Fairly sensible IMHO. Why the rush? They have already said it will be back dated...


If all 100,000 people got an invite at once, then you would all be complaining that the website was down, or that you are unable to get through to somebody on the phone.


Some people just need to grow up a little and take a step back and realise what a monumental task this is due to the numbers involved.

Of course it will be back-dated. That's how tax works. But it's still an unnecessary delay in receiving the benefit of the unused allowance - and I doubt HMRC would be sitting around if the debt was the other way round.

A few years back, HMRC would have taken (and frequently did take) a change like this in its stride - it's been known for months, and the adjustment's straightforward. I don't blame HMRC, though - as I said, it's government-led cash starvation that's creating the problem. And it's that same cash starvation (look at the HMRC staffing cuts since 2010) that allows widescale tax avoidance and evasion, because there aren't enough people left to stop it! Likewise the NHS.

p00hsticks

Doc_N wrote: »

A few years back, HMRC would have taken (and frequently did take) a change like this in its stride - it's been known for months, and the adjustment's straightforward.

Not as straightforward as it could have been though. They're effecting the change by not only adjusting the numerical bit of the two partners' tax codes, but are also applying new tax code suffixes ('N' for the transferor and 'M' for the recipient) as well, which probably means computer system changes...

zygurat789

p00hsticks wrote: »

Not as straightforward as it could have been though. They're effecting the change by not only adjusting the numerical bit of the two partners' tax codes, but are also applying new tax code suffixes ('N' for the transferor and 'M' for the recipient) as well, which probably means computer system changes...

But only a minor subroutine to enable future years to be updated automatically.

zygurat789

Doc_N wrote: »

So - the usual foul-up by HMRC then.

Still, that's the price we all have to pay for Tory cuts. No staff to operate HMRC properly - or any other government department for that matter. No money for local government, so the roads fall to pieces and social welfare crumbles. But plenty of money to allow what little social housing there is left to be sold off at a discount to the bribed tenants.

Wonderful. Let's all move to Scotland.

That's because it's all been given away to people who don't work, live in property beyond their means and have children for a pay rise without any thought of overpopulation.
Selling off social housing brings IN money, strange logic.

zagubov

SplanK wrote: »

Go on then, !!!!!! off then, more room for those who want to stay!

Have you got shares in Pickfords? It'd be easier to do what Manchester suggested and just move the border down to just below Lancashire/Yorkshire. A pencil line on the map's easier to move than millions of people.

Doc_N

zagubov wrote: »

Have you got shares in Pickfords? It'd be easier to do what Manchester suggested and just move the border down to just below Lancashire/Yorkshire. A pencil line on the map's easier to move than millions of people.

Excellent idea. A land of inclusiveness and social justice north of the line, and all the greedy Thatcherite me me me lot south of it.

Onawingandaprayer

Doc_N wrote: »

Excellent idea. A land of inclusiveness and social justice north of the line,

run by Sturgeon and McCluskey. Ooh sounds lovely

Doc_N

Onawingandaprayer wrote: »

run by Sturgeon and McCluskey. Ooh sounds lovely

But still infinitely better than being run by a couple of toffee-nosed public school rich boy clowns like Cameron and Osborne.

Onawingandaprayer

Doc_N wrote: »

But still infinitely better than being run by a couple of toffee-nosed public school rich boy clowns like Cameron and Osborne.

Bet it really grates that a democratic majority voted for those 'toffee-nosed public school rich boy clowns'.

CathA

Just out of interest, if you apply for this this year, is it automatically applied each year? Thanks.