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“Examples of errors include people having their personal tax allowances removed, being placed on higher tax codes or even having a '1' inserted in front of their salary, erroneously inflating up their taxable income by £100,000.”
These would be covered by some pretty basic test cases.
Sorry, I’m not available, I’m not cheap and I’m not UK resident (or Bob).
And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014
If the errors are mostly in the state's favour, I wouldn't put it past the last Government to have had the records tweaked deliberately to up the estimated tax take so they could release over-optimistic estimates of revenues before the election and thus make more convincing their claims that a recovery was underway.
“Examples of errors include people having their personal tax allowances removed, being placed on higher tax codes or even having a '1' inserted in front of their salary, erroneously inflating up their taxable income by £100,000.”
These would be covered by some pretty basic test cases.
I wish my code was that good.
How did this happen? Who's to blame? Well certainly there are those more responsible than others, and they will be held accountable, but again truth be told, if you're looking for the guilty, you need only look into a mirror.
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