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HMRC refund - a real one!
nick205 - 15/8/13 at 09:02 PM

After 6 months of arguing with the unbelievably cretinous HMRC I have today received an income tax refund of £619.00

They have also relented and corrected my tax code too for the remainder of 2013/14

I'm pretty sure they've spent more than the refund in arguing the toss

ReMan - 15/8/13 at 09:26 PM

Well done.
Wish me luck, I sent them back 3 years uncashed cheques today for overpayment and want them to send me 1 smaller one having deducted my underpayment for 5 years.
I've tried 3 time to stop them so far, this is the last one.......

nick205 - 15/8/13 at 09:29 PM

I wish you luck indeed!

I can't express my level of frustration with them on a public forum

ReMan - 15/8/13 at 09:32 PM

DVLA, HMRC, im sure theres more FLA's

MikeRJ - 15/8/13 at 09:33 PM

I got a cheque from HMRC this week for £114, not as good as 619 but always nice when they are giving you money rather than grabbing it!

carlknight1982 - 15/8/13 at 09:40 PM

I had a bill for £78 cheeky bastards

loggyboy - 15/8/13 at 11:03 PM

I got £550 cheque from them last year, to which I thought great. Cashed it, spent some of it, then 3 weeks later another letter saying they miscalculated and it should have only have been £130. I had enough to pay them back but moaned and claimed I had spent it all, they agreed to take it back over 12 months, so I agreed and effectively took it as a £420 interest free loan. Dicks.

Dusty - 15/8/13 at 11:04 PM

I had a demand for £1.74 and a refund of £17 about a week apart. I've paid the 1.74 by cheque and cashed the refund. Life's too short to get involved in pointless discussions with morons.

theduck - 16/8/13 at 08:15 AM

I had a nearly £900 refund, which was £500 more than I expected. Then got the letter dying they are incompetent fools and that they had worked it out wrong. Amazing really that an estate agent in 5 minutes can get it correct to the penny but it takes hmrc 2 months to get it wrong and a further month to realise and correct it.

nick205 - 16/8/13 at 10:24 AM

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Originally posted by theduck
I had a nearly £900 refund, which was £500 more than I expected. Then got the letter dying they are incompetent fools and that they had worked it out wrong. Amazing really that an estate agent in 5 minutes can get it correct to the penny but it takes hmrc 2 months to get it wrong and a further month to realise and correct it.



TBH that's better performance than I'd expect from them, certainly faster!. I was told their standard response time to written communication is 8 weeks, before that they don't consider it late. Show me a private company that could survive on that basis!

jimmyd - 16/8/13 at 11:18 AM

I got a big fat cheque for £67 this week. If there was at least a 0 on the end it may have finished my build!!

J