BN66 - Time to fight back (Chapter 3)

[Emigre]

Hi Emigre,
Have you had trouble with credit checks that prevented you from getting other types or mortgages or finance? If so, for how long and was it before you had CN's or after?

Nothing sinister here and nothing to do with the timing of CNs etc. The lender preferred to use the HMRC issued form that shows total income, tax paid at different rates, NI etc (sorry, don't know form number, so long since I received one, lol) as their preferred evidence of income. I didn't have any so had to pay more.

I will pursue the additional expense.

[SLB]

Nothing sinister here and nothing to do with the timing of CNs etc. The lender preferred to use the HMRC issued form that shows total income, tax paid at different rates, NI etc (sorry, don't know form number, so long since I received one, lol) as their preferred evidence of income. I didn't have any so had to pay more.

I will pursue the additional expense.

OK, I see what you mean now. Thanks for replying.

[Emigre]

Enjoy the weekend

Two weeks ago we were left a little crest-fallen after the PwC hearing was kicked out on a technicality.

This week we in the happy position of having got the right to a JR, as well as the oustanding work by DR to get the review by the JCHR. These are no small achievements in the world of arrogance that appears to have completely overtaken Westminster.

We probably now have 9 months to get properly prepared for the JR during which time we need to keep together and hold the faith.

Enjoy your weekends

Emigre

[BrilloPad]

Two weeks ago we were left a little crest-fallen after the PwC hearing was kicked out on a technicality.

This week we in the happy position of having got the right to a JR, as well as the oustanding work by DR to get the review by the JCHR. These are no small achievements in the world of arrogance that appears to have completely overtaken Westminster.

We probably now have 9 months to get properly prepared for the JR during which time we need to keep together and hold the faith.

Enjoy your weekends

Emigre

WHS

[BrilloPad]

http://hmrcistulipe.blogspot.com/

you might have to replace tulip with the word the swear filter does not allow!

[TykeMerc]

I'm glad to hear so many of you saying that you won't be interested in a settlement and want to push all out for the win. The reason I've supported your cause wasn't because I think your exploiting a legal loophole was morally right, but because retrospective laws are simply WRONG.

If HMRC can get people to settle then they will have won as the principle of retrospection will not be firmly killed and they can do it again maybe at the loan schemes or some other esoteric tax planning measure.

Assuming that you do nail the beggars to the wall (which I sincerely hope you manage to do) then seeking damages for all the stress, grief, harrassment and anguish HMRC have caused seems perfectly reasonable to me. I sincerely hope that you pull that off too

[seadog]

do you know if anyone has done any digging on Timms expenses? If not might be time to have a quiet word in someones shell like. See if we can make some waves for him so he can see what stress of maybe losing your life for a while is like....wouldnt it be wonderful to see some sort of the headline along the lines of the treasury scretary with one hand in the till while persecuting the public.

anyone got a contact at the telegraph?

No use looking at the redacted version. the full monty will all be published in the Telegraph in a special edition on Saturday morning.

They had better print plenty, there is going to be a massive run on this edition.

Then we can trawl through to see if there are any howlers in Timms expenses.

[seadog]

This!

My situation, which is similar but different, the provider have disappeared off the face of the earth and left us high and dry, so you are all very lucky actually.

Who was your provider and can we get hold of any of the disgruntled members to encourage them to join this forum

The more we have the better for us and the more support for them

[seadog]

I keep hearing rumblings of weighing this against the fact of 'wholly artificial' and 'surely they knew the risks'.... etc. and to me there lies the straw that could break the contractor camels back..... this one gives me sleepless nights...

without this little worry, I believe its all looks rosey....

That may be true for IT contractors but for property developers using the scheme it had one other major benefit.

It acted as an asset protection scheme.

That is to say it got money out of the company and away from the clutches of litigeous clients and householders who might want to claim against the company.

As I say, not much use to you IT guys but it does pop the argument that it was a "wholly artificial" arrangement.

[Richard Splash]

I think you should tell Montp if you havent already.
There is a 30 day limit to the time you can appeal against a closure notice.

Have you had an enquiry opened into your self assesment returns? If not, then HMRC may have missed their deadline to claim the money. But as in my case, the enquiry letter may have "alledgedly" got lost in the post.

If you havent done so already, request your file under the Data Protection Act (see my link below). Dont tell them why you want it. That way if HMRC turn round and say they did send a closure notice/enquiry letter, you will have proof whether they did or did not.

Gee Santa, thanks. Just started filling in the form right now.