HMRC Simple Assessment 2018-2019 debt

recklessmurmur

Hi everyone,
I'm currently in the process of setting up my DMP and have tasked myself with opening/filing/throwing letters I have recieved. I reopened one today, which I had forgotten about. 
In Dec 2023 HMRC wrote to me saying that I owed £505 in tax from a simple assessment calculation where I was incorrectly given marriage allowance. My earnings went over £50k 2018/2019 for the first time, so I was no longer entitled apparently. This was the first I'd ever heard of it.
They said in the letter they had previously sent me the workings out, however I have never recieved them. I called them up at the time & they said I need to pay it. They also said they were aware other people have received these letters but had never had anything prior to it aswell.
Anyway, I told the person at the time in December that I couldn't pay it, and he said I was to recieve a tax refund at some point so to call them back & pay it with this when I can.
I did recieve a tax rebate, but not enough to cover the whole amount, and I spent it. No justification for why I spent it other than needing to use it for essentials (I'm on a debt forum, you guys will understand the decisions we make when desperate).
To this day, I've never recieved any more correspondence from them. What shall I do? I'm currently not paying my non-essential payments waiting for them to default. Will this catch up with me, or given it's age will it just...dissappear...or am I being optimistic here !!
Thank you xx RM xx

recklessmurmur

Does anyone have any thoughts please? :-) xxx

sourcrates

It`s not going to disappear, HMRC has a very long memory, and this will likely re-surface just when you could least do with it.

Best to contact them and get a plan in place, if it remains unpaid, they can take what is owed from any future benefit payments or even your state pension, so think on.

recklessmurmur

sourcrates said:

It`s not going to disappear, HMRC has a very long memory, and this will likely re-surface just when you could least do with it.

Best to contact them and get a plan in place, if it remains unpaid, they can take what is owed from any future benefit payments or even your state pension, so think on.

Thanks Sourcrates, much appreciated xx