Reply to: Letter from HMRC

[Coreyk]

You should tell them to look at your website. Then post on there they have to call a number. Ensure that number routes to a call-waiting system with at least 30mins of hold music interrupted only by announcements to say that they should look on your website...

[MyUserName]

Seems a bit obscure what you're suggesting though. Send a random P45 then start an IR35 investigation? Am I missing something?

Only my naive paranoia

[psychocandy]

Hello all,

I have just received a letter asking me to supply the P45 part 1 form for Mrs Lynn Murray.
I have never heard of her and she has certainly never worked for me.

Has anyone received this kind of thing before? I am cautious in case it is an obtuse IR35 starting point.

Yep. I had some random persons P45 sent to me once.

Seems a bit obscure what you're suggesting though. Send a random P45 then start an IR35 investigation? Am I missing something?

i just assumed it was just some useless git at HMRC putting it in wrong envelope....

[wim121]

Yep that would be about right and probably more than once

Indeed. HMRC really do tend to be a bit dim. I can see this issue taking 10 months at least.

[Old Greg]

In the long run, it is probably easiest to change your name to Lynn Murray.

[BolshieBastard]

let em have a taste of their own medicine, Send it to the wrong department

I like it! Better still, send it unstamped!

[LisaContractorUmbrella]

Okay in order to set my quality bar at HMRC's level:

I have typed up a letter explaining that I have never heard of this person and she has never worked for me and included the original letter they sent me. I have sent this to ToysRUs with no return address with the entire thing translated into a language I have made up.

I have sent HMRC a letter about chaffinches and details on how to tell them apart from a komodo dragon (complete with pictures of two different breeds of dog).

This has been sent to a random address which I got my three year old to type and I made the stamp out of a stone I found in the garden which I have glued to the wrong part of the envelope.

I hope that this will be the last thing I hear on the matter.

In that case the letter will end up in the VAT office and not the tax office and you will face investigation for not paying the import duty on the komodo dragon

[northernladuk]

Okay in order to set my quality bar at HMRC's level:

I have typed up a letter explaining that I have never heard of this person and she has never worked for me and included the original letter they sent me. I have sent this to ToysRUs with no return address with the entire thing translated into a language I have made up.

I have sent HMRC a letter about chaffinches and details on how to tell them apart from a komodo dragon (complete with pictures of two different breeds of dog).

This has been sent to a random address which I got my three year old to type and I made the stamp out of a stone I found in the garden which I have glued to the wrong part of the envelope.

I hope that this will be the last thing I hear on the matter.

I don't think it will. The next thing you get will be a picture of Sherlock Homes, a dollar bill and a 'Got to Jail' monopoly card IMO....

[Support Monkey]

Okay in order to set my quality bar at HMRC's level:

I have typed up a letter explaining that I have never heard of this person and she has never worked for me and included the original letter they sent me. I have sent this to ToysRUs with no return address with the entire thing translated into a language I have made up.

I have sent HMRC a letter about chaffinches and details on how to tell them apart from a komodo dragon (complete with pictures of two different breeds of dog).

This has been sent to a random address which I got my three year old to type and I made the stamp out of a stone I found in the garden which I have glued to the wrong part of the envelope.

I hope that this will be the last thing I hear on the matter.

[MyUserName]

Okay in order to set my quality bar at HMRC's level:

I have typed up a letter explaining that I have never heard of this person and she has never worked for me and included the original letter they sent me. I have sent this to ToysRUs with no return address with the entire thing translated into a language I have made up.

I have sent HMRC a letter about chaffinches and details on how to tell them apart from a komodo dragon (complete with pictures of two different breeds of dog).

This has been sent to a random address which I got my three year old to type and I made the stamp out of a stone I found in the garden which I have glued to the wrong part of the envelope.

I hope that this will be the last thing I hear on the matter.

[eek]

let em have a taste of their own medicine, Send it to the wrong department

Thats the wrong approach. If you send it to the wrong department it has a better chance of arriving at the correct person.

[SueEllen]

let em have a taste of their own medicine, Send it to the wrong department

They don't need your help to do that.

[northernladuk]

and don't forget to include the paragraph of how you thought it was the beginning of an IR35 investigation and that you'd been caught but luckily they were in the wrong (this time) and therefore you are quite happy to point out there failings again and again forever if need be just so long as it's not an IR35 investigation.

HTH

Chef

LOL.. Beautiful

[Support Monkey]

Apparently I have to write them a letter, including the letter they wrote me, explaining that they have got it wrong.
*sigh*

let em have a taste of their own medicine, Send it to the wrong department

[chef]

and don't forget to include the paragraph of how you thought it was the beginning of an IR35 investigation and that you'd been caught but luckily they were in the wrong (this time) and therefore you are quite happy to point out there failings again and again forever if need be just so long as it's not an IR35 investigation.

HTH

Chef