Taxpayers who have PAYE underpayments of more than £2,000 and contact HMRC to discuss their circumstances will not be charged interest on late payment, HMRC officials have told MPs.
Dave Hartnett, HMRC’s Permanent Secretary for Tax, is set to be questioned by the House of Commons Treasury Committee today on HMRC’s operation of the PAYE system.
When Dave Hartnett, HMRC’s Permanent Secretary for Tax, told the BBC’s Paul Lewis that he was not sure that he saw a need to apologise, he was responding to an invitation to ‘apologise to the six
The Chairman of the All-Party Parliamentary Taxation Group accused the UK’s senior tax official, Dave Hartnett, of arrogance after Hartnett claimed in a radio interview broadcast on 11 September that there was no need to apologise over the scale of PAYE over and underpayments.
HMRC will not pursue cases where the amount owed is less than £300, which account for 40% of all underpayments, David Gauke told MPs.
HMRC insisted that over and underpayments would always be a feature of the PAYE system after it emerged that between four and ten million people could be in line for a repayment, while at least 1.4 million face demands for unpaid tax.
HMRC has published the notes accompanying the ‘PAYE tax calculations’ sent to 45,000 taxpayers.
HMRC has defended the PAYE system after press reports indicated that between four and ten million people could be in line for a repayment, while at least 1.4 million face demands for unpaid tax.
The CIOT’s Low Incomes Tax Reform Group advised taxpayers to treat HMRC calculations showing an underpayment with caution.
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