TONY HETHERINGTON: THE INNOCENT PENSIONE

Mrs J.D. writes: I am sending you correspondence I have had with the Revenue on behalf of my friend who lives in New Zealand, but is a UK taxpayer. She has been persecuted by Revenue & Customs. Like me, she is a widow. Our husbands both worked in the Prison Service and she now lives with her daughter. You can imagine her distress at being told in 2012 that she had underpaid income tax since 2008 when her Prison Service widow’s pension started. She has been hounded to set up a monthly standing order to pay this tax, even though I believe the Revenue is clearly breaking its own rules by claiming the money too late. It appears it is acceptable for the likes of Vodafone to have a cosy arrangement with the Revenue over its tax affairs and for Starbucks, Google and Amazon to sidestep tax, but the Revenue will stop at nothing in its persecution of an easy target

Mrs J.D. writes: I am sending you correspondence I have had with the Revenue on behalf of my friend who lives in New Zealand, but is a UK taxpayer. She has been persecuted by Revenue & Customs. Like me, she is a widow. Our husbands both worked in the Prison Service and she now lives with her daughter. You can imagine her distress at being told in 2012 that she had underpaid income tax since 2008 when her Prison Service widow’s pension started. She has been hounded to set up a monthly standing order to pay this tax, even though I believe the Revenue is clearly breaking its own rules by claiming the money too late. It appears it is acceptable for the likes of Vodafone to have a cosy arrangement with the Revenue over its tax affairs and for Starbucks, Google and Amazon to sidestep tax, but the Revenue will stop at nothing in its persecution of an easy target

Mrs J.D. writes: I am sending you correspondence I have had with the Revenue on behalf of my friend who lives in New Zealand, but is a UK taxpayer. She has been persecuted by Revenue & Customs. Like me, she is a widow. Our husbands both worked in the Prison Service and she now lives with her daughter. You can imagine her distress at being told in 2012 that she had underpaid income tax since 2008 when her Prison Service widow’s pension started. She has been hounded to set up a monthly standing order to pay this tax, even though I believe the Revenue is clearly breaking its own rules by claiming the money too late. It appears it is acceptable for the likes of Vodafone to have a cosy arrangement with the Revenue over its tax affairs and for Starbucks, Google and Amazon to sidestep tax, but the Revenue will stop at nothing in its persecution of an easy target

Mrs J.D. writes: I am sending you correspondence I have had with the Revenue on behalf of my friend who lives in New Zealand, but is a UK taxpayer. She has been persecuted by Revenue & Customs. Like me, she is a widow. Our husbands both worked in the Prison Service and she now lives with her daughter. You can imagine her distress at being told in 2012 that she had underpaid income tax since 2008 when her Prison Service widow’s pension started. She has been hounded to set up a monthly standing order to pay this tax, even though I believe the Revenue is clearly breaking its own rules by claiming the money too late. It appears it is acceptable for the likes of Vodafone to have a cosy arrangement with the Revenue over its tax affairs and for Starbucks, Google and Amazon to sidestep tax, but the Revenue will stop at nothing in its persecution of an easy target

Mrs J.D. writes: I am sending you correspondence I have had with the Revenue on behalf of my friend who lives in New Zealand, but is a UK taxpayer. She has been persecuted by Revenue & Customs. Like me, she is a widow. Our husbands both worked in the Prison Service and she now lives with her daughter. You can imagine her distress at being told in 2012 that she had underpaid income tax since 2008 when her Prison Service widow’s pension started. She has been hounded to set up a monthly standing order to pay this tax, even though I believe the Revenue is clearly breaking its own rules by claiming the money too late. It appears it is acceptable for the likes of Vodafone to have a cosy arrangement with the Revenue over its tax affairs and for Starbucks, Google and Amazon to sidestep tax, but the Revenue will stop at nothing in its persecution of an easy target