BN66 - Time to fight back (Chapter 3)

[BrilloPad]

It's a good idea, but we need someone who really stands to be bankrupted and not afraid of publicity in front of friends and family. That counts me out I'm afraid

I am quite happy to go before the cameras : in fact I did it once for f4j. I was on the main news bulletins.

How do I contact them?

[helen7]

Under the newspapers logic, if you earn more that 30,000 a year you are 'super rich'. The news will just spin it as rich fat cats paying what is due after trying to rip off the taxpayer.

How much sympathy are the bankers in the USA getting for the 90% retrospective tax on last years bonus?

[TAF4]

I am quite happy to go before the cameras : in fact I did it once for f4j. I was on the main news bulletins.

How do I contact them?

http://www.itv.com/News/tonight/Contactus/default.html

[Little'Old Me]

You can watch the program on ITV player:

http://www.itv.com/ITVPlayer/30DayCa...ilter=6/4/2009

At the end, Jonathan Maitland mentioned that the HMRC admitted when he made a freedom of information request, that each year 100 bankruptcies issued by HMRC were annulled.

I will make a comment, if I received a bankruptcy petition from HMRC when I disputed the amount, I would attend the hearing personally (or write to the judge stating that the money is not owed) and tell the Judge that I did not owe the money. It is then up to HMRC to prove to the judge that the amount owed is correct. The problems is 99.9% of people do nothing, so the petition automatically goes through as it has not been "disputed".

[DonkeyRhubarb]

http://www.itv.com/News/tonight/Contactus/default.html

Email address: tonight@itv.com

Re: The news will just spin it as rich fat cats paying what is due after trying to rip off the taxpayer.

That has been done to death recently. People are bored. In any case, that story is only interesting if you can point to fat cats that people recognise.

Much more juicy to expose HMRC shear incompetence, and how they will even resort to time travel to cover up their own ineptitude.

[poppy01]

Email address: tonight@itv.com

Re: The news will just spin it as rich fat cats paying what is due after trying to rip off the taxpayer.

That has been done to death recently. People are bored. In any case, that story is only interesting if you can point to fat cats that people recognise.

Much more juicy to expose HMRC shear incompetence, and how they will even resort to time travel to cover up their own ineptitude.

wonder what Brannigans answer would be if requested for TV interview, I think he'd probably melt in sunlight.

[Emigre]

I am quite happy to go before the cameras : in fact I did it once for f4j. I was on the main news bulletins.

How do I contact them?

It would be good to have some backup here. If we can get and prove enough people are affected they could have a whole programme about us? I would join you BP but my last remaining assets are joint assets with a new partner where we both have children from previous marriages. I care more about them than I do these issues. I know that makes me good to go for it but I'm not up for exposing them - I'm lucky, i have a new life.

[For those that are not aware, I "lost" most of my assets on a divorce settlement a few years ago. I invested/deposited the tax that I had "saved" as a result of the scheme - until I got divorced that is, when the ex got most of the assets because, apparently, her ability to work was impaired by bringing up the children. My offer to bring them up AND work was not accepted.] My dear Mr B, go look elsewhere. Is there a f**k you emoticon?

[DonkeyRhubarb]

wonder what Brannigans answer would be if requested for TV interview, I think he'd probably melt in sunlight.

There's no way HMRC higher ups would let someone like him anywhere near a reporter, or a courtroom for that matter!!!

His "work" (writing letters!) is done now, so I don't suppose we'll hear from him much in future.

[DonkeyRhubarb]

I invested/deposited the tax that I had "saved" as a result of the scheme - until I got divorced that is, when the ex got most of the assets because, apparently, her ability to work was impaired by bringing up the children.

There was a test case about this recently. Apparently, creditors can go after former spouses to recover debts where there was an unequal divorce settlement, so your ex might be in for a nasty surprise!

[Emigre]

There's no way HMRC higher ups would let someone like him anywhere near a reporter, or a courtroom for that matter!!!

His "work" (writing letters!) is done now, so I don't suppose we'll hear from him much in future.

So he's been retired on a Fred type pension?