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Hazel Blears pays tax that she "doesn't owe"

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    Hazel Blears pays tax that she "doesn't owe"

    How does that work? How do HMRC account for it? They can't put it against a tax bill when there wasn't one. Presumably they do keep books, how do they balance them when they get a payment that "shouldn't exist"?

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    Originally posted by expat View Post
    How does that work? How do HMRC account for it? They can't put it against a tax bill when there wasn't one. Presumably they do keep books, how do they balance them when they get a payment that "shouldn't exist"?
    It's filed under "payments from MPs who are desperate to keep their jobs but know they are in it up to their necks".

    This is one little madam that I am going to delight in watching fall...
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      #3
      She really is an odious little twerp. I hope she gets sent to jail for tax evasion.

      If she'd thought about it a bit more she would have given the expenses back rather than face the investigators of HMRC.

      What's that helpline where you shop benefit cheats? Do the HMRC have a similar line?
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        #4
        Erm...I pay taxes I dont owe as well - it's called "On Account", HMRC's legal theft service
        The pope is a tard.

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          #5
          Lots of people in the Netherlands deliberately pay too much tax because the tax office pays it back a year later with 5% interest; best savings bank you can find in Europe.
          And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014

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            #6
            Switzerland too. Not 5% but a lot better than any bank. It only applies to the first 25% of overpayment though.
            Down with racism. Long live miscegenation!

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              #7
              Originally posted by expat View Post
              They can't put it against a tax bill when there wasn't one.
              Simple.

              HMRC just put it down as a credit against her future SA tax bills.

              She's pulling the wool over our eyes, the deceitful bitch.

              You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.

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                #8
                This was on R5 yesterday morning, they talked about having to draw up a new procedure for this...

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                  #9
                  Originally posted by Moscow Mule View Post
                  She really is an odious little twerp. I hope she gets sent to jail for tax evasion.

                  If she'd thought about it a bit more she would have given the expenses back rather than face the investigators of HMRC.

                  What's that helpline where you shop benefit cheats? Do the HMRC have a similar line?
                  Why would she get done for tax evasion? The sad thing in the whole debacle is that whilst morally reprehensible, with few exceptions, MPs have done nothing wrong (in terms of breaching the rules) or illegal.

                  A friend of mine was bitching about it the other day, and then in the next breath was detailing how he put his new plasma screen TV through the company, and claimed for some made-up training that he hadn't been on.
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                    #10
                    Originally posted by FiveTimes View Post
                    This was on R5 yesterday morning, they talked about having to draw up a new procedure for this...
                    No they don't.

                    They just put any payments in credit against your SA account

                    You've come right out the other side of the forest of irony and ended up in the desert of wrong.

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