Quote Inflatable_Armadillo="Inflatable_Armadillo"Just to add something else to this thread, one of things that lots of people seem not to be questioning is HMRC's role and whether they have got things right and acted in a reasonable manner?
My own recent dealings with HMRC have proven to me that they are just as prone to making errors as any of the millions of companies they deal with.
I won't bore you with the full details but I have spent the last couple of months amicably disputing what they think was a £46 short-fall in the corporation tax my company owed. The long and short of it is that in the end I decided to concede and pay the additional £46 (I still they they are wrong BTW) because the cost of continuing to dispute it would outweigh such a small amount owed . So just under a month ago I paid them by electronic transfer. I was therefore just a little surprised to come home from holiday to find not one, but two letters, dated just 2 days apart, threatening me with the bailiff's for not paying them. Apparently their records say I haven't paid... they are of course wrong.
So they do make mistakes as well and are far from perfect themselves!'"
IMO they make lots of mistakes, some small, some large. I am currently disputing with them over something as simple as my tax code. I have been in the same job for ages, with no real recent changes to my personal or work situation yet have had 5 different tax codes in the last 9 months. Each time they change it it is because the previous one had been calculated incorrectly.
I know this is not exactly the same thing but it just shows how poor their systems are that they cannot get this right. They have all the information but keep changing their assessment of the situation.
I'm not saying that the club have not made an oversight, they obviously have from the press releases put out, but it could quite easily be on the back of a mistake/re-assessment of liabilities made by HMRC in the first place.
