Noodlebear
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Bit of a rant because I've gotten myself in such a state about everything today that I've had to take a day off work! 
They helped us out when my OH was the only one working with tax credits. He got a new job that took us over the threshold for financial help and now they're saying we owe them £1500. I understand that they're doing it based on our annual income but this is money we needed and have spent and now they're effectively punishing us for trying to get ourselves out of a tricky situation!!!! What I find more ridiculous is that later on in that same letter they told me I was entitled to another payment of x amount of money that month but it then meant I had to pay £1500 PLUS x amount of money they were about to give me. What sort of stupid logic is that?! I had to call and ask them NOT to pay me another penny because it was getting out of hand.
Secondly - I'm an idiot. This is my fault for being totally stupid but it's got me so worked up. I work onboard a ferry, the company is based outside of the UK so we have to pay our own tax. We have to go through the self assessment, they messed up sending me my bill so sent another one extending the time frame I had to pay it. I paid it online and was on time so I wasn't aware that there was a problem. They then sent me a letter fining me for a late payment, I phoned up to explain that I'd just paid and they said to ignore the letter. So I did. A while later I get another letter, on the bottom it says that if the amount has been paid to ignore it so again I did. (keeping all the letters in preparation for any trouble) Months have gone by and now they've sent me 2 letters so close together I didn't have time to do anything about the first one before the second arrived. The first one told me they were fining me £1200 on top of what the actual bill was for not paying it and the second one was saying that I had ignored their letters and they were going to take legal action against me. I phoned up this morning asking them to explain to me what was going on their end because I was getting confused.....after she'd told me AGAIN that I hadn't paid it I explained that I'd done it online and she informed me that I was now being fined because I hadn't sent back a bit of fucking paper telling them that whatever was owed had been paid..... I'm being fined over a bit of paper!! I've been on the phone to them about both situations and no one thought to tell me what had gone on. I've gone back and looked at these letters it says 'IF YOU NEED TO USE THIS SLIP' IF I just don't see how I was meant to realise that meant I needed to send that back too? If they didn't mean that bit of paper then I don't have whatever I was meant to fill in.
Just needed to get it all off my chest, not expecting anyone to read the lot lol. Started sobbing on the phone to them like the most pathetic person you've ever seen in your life because they want £2600 from me. I've just spent over £600 on a holiday for my birthday later in the year. Got so much going on at the moment, can't be dealing with this.
And HMRC should all be in capitals and now even my rant is annoying me..... I've gotten to a point where I've just got to laugh or I'm going to curl up in a messy little ball.
They helped us out when my OH was the only one working with tax credits. He got a new job that took us over the threshold for financial help and now they're saying we owe them £1500. I understand that they're doing it based on our annual income but this is money we needed and have spent and now they're effectively punishing us for trying to get ourselves out of a tricky situation!!!! What I find more ridiculous is that later on in that same letter they told me I was entitled to another payment of x amount of money that month but it then meant I had to pay £1500 PLUS x amount of money they were about to give me. What sort of stupid logic is that?! I had to call and ask them NOT to pay me another penny because it was getting out of hand.
Secondly - I'm an idiot. This is my fault for being totally stupid but it's got me so worked up. I work onboard a ferry, the company is based outside of the UK so we have to pay our own tax. We have to go through the self assessment, they messed up sending me my bill so sent another one extending the time frame I had to pay it. I paid it online and was on time so I wasn't aware that there was a problem. They then sent me a letter fining me for a late payment, I phoned up to explain that I'd just paid and they said to ignore the letter. So I did. A while later I get another letter, on the bottom it says that if the amount has been paid to ignore it so again I did. (keeping all the letters in preparation for any trouble) Months have gone by and now they've sent me 2 letters so close together I didn't have time to do anything about the first one before the second arrived. The first one told me they were fining me £1200 on top of what the actual bill was for not paying it and the second one was saying that I had ignored their letters and they were going to take legal action against me. I phoned up this morning asking them to explain to me what was going on their end because I was getting confused.....after she'd told me AGAIN that I hadn't paid it I explained that I'd done it online and she informed me that I was now being fined because I hadn't sent back a bit of fucking paper telling them that whatever was owed had been paid..... I'm being fined over a bit of paper!! I've been on the phone to them about both situations and no one thought to tell me what had gone on. I've gone back and looked at these letters it says 'IF YOU NEED TO USE THIS SLIP' IF I just don't see how I was meant to realise that meant I needed to send that back too? If they didn't mean that bit of paper then I don't have whatever I was meant to fill in.
Just needed to get it all off my chest, not expecting anyone to read the lot lol. Started sobbing on the phone to them like the most pathetic person you've ever seen in your life because they want £2600 from me. I've just spent over £600 on a holiday for my birthday later in the year. Got so much going on at the moment, can't be dealing with this.
And HMRC should all be in capitals and now even my rant is annoying me..... I've gotten to a point where I've just got to laugh or I'm going to curl up in a messy little ball.
