Pit Pensioners tax demands


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My fatha is 75 and has a state pension and his pit pension and no other income.

As you would expect, he hasn't earned enough to break the tax threshold.......or so he thought, for donkeys years. He has just had a tax demand for £800 going back to 07/08 as they are saying, accurately as it turns out, that he has been over the threshold since then and should paid £40 a month income tax.

He is at his wits end over this and it seems to me that the Inland Revenue have screwed this up and are punishing him for it.

Any other former miners families come across this?
 
My fatha is 75 and has a state pension and his pit pension and no other income.

As you would expect, he hasn't earned enough to break the tax threshold.......or so he thought, for donkeys years. He has just had a tax demand for £800 going back to 07/08 as they are saying, accurately as it turns out, that he has been over the threshold since then and should paid £40 a month income tax.

He is at his wits end over this and it seems to me that the Inland Revenue have screwed this up and are punishing him for it.

Any other former miners families come across this?

My wife retired over 10 years ago with a 30 year pension from the NHS and with her senior citizen has paid £44 a month income tax since. Do you think because he worked in coal industry he should be exempt?
 
My wife retired over 10 years ago with a 30 year pension from the NHS and with her senior citizen has paid £44 a month income tax since. Do you think because he worked in coal industry he should be exempt?

Certainly not, but it should have happened automatically. He's not self employed tha' knars! If they know now what his total income is, why didn't they in 2007 and tax him accordingly?
 
My fatha is 75 and has a state pension and his pit pension and no other income.

As you would expect, he hasn't earned enough to break the tax threshold.......or so he thought, for donkeys years. He has just had a tax demand for £800 going back to 07/08 as they are saying, accurately as it turns out, that he has been over the threshold since then and should paid £40 a month income tax.

He is at his wits end over this and it seems to me that the Inland Revenue have screwed this up and are punishing him for it.

Any other former miners families come across this?

Just ring them up and say he can't pay it and he doesn't feel he should have to, it'll get wiped or reduced to peanuts.
No need for him to worry about it, it's all computerised bollocks now with half wits waiting at the end of a phone that don't know their arse from their elbows.
 
Can he not get on one of those payment plans where you only have to pay £1 a week or something considering he has no income other than his modest pension?
 
My fatha is 75 and has a state pension and his pit pension and no other income.

As you would expect, he hasn't earned enough to break the tax threshold.......or so he thought, for donkeys years. He has just had a tax demand for £800 going back to 07/08 as they are saying, accurately as it turns out, that he has been over the threshold since then and should paid £40 a month income tax.

He is at his wits end over this and it seems to me that the Inland Revenue have screwed this up and are punishing him for it.

Any other former miners families come across this?
Miners can expect to be offered up to a maximum of £27,000 in redundancy payments:cool: wish i'd been given that for a minimum 15yrs service to retrain as well as a state and miners pension and you're moaning about paying back a few quid you got given in the first place:cool: some of my mates are still getting and laughing about white/vibration finger payments to this day with other ongoing cases and there is fuck all wrong with them. Biggest scam in the world being an ex NCB miner
 
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Miners can expect to be offered up to a maximum of £27,000 in redundancy payments:cool: wish i'd been given that for a minimum 15yrs service to retrain as well as a state and miners pension and you're moaning about paying back a few quid you got given in the first place:cool: some of my mates are still getting and laughing about white/vibration finger payments to this day with other ongoing cases and there is fuck all wrong with them. Biggest scam in the world being an ex NCB miner

Aye it was a bed of roses down the pit in the 50's - 80's like. He earned and contributed to the pension. "Given" ffs! Are you the illegitimate kid of a miner or something?

He's not moaning about getting taxed, it's the IR fuck up that caused it. £800 to a 75 year old is hardly "a few quid" now is it?
 
Aye it was a bed of roses down the pit in the 50's - 80's like. He earned and contributed to the pension. "Given" ffs! Are you the illegitimate kid of a miner or something?

He's not moaning about getting taxed, it's the IR fuck up that caused it. £800 to a 75 year old is hardly "a few quid" now is it?

No mate its not but your comment that you wouldnt expect him to actually be liable ie be above the tax bracket doesnt really stack as thats a presumption all mineworkers pensions are small when in fact they are not......


However whilst he probably does owe the tax and theres no reason why he shouldnt pay it get back onto them and point out that the error is the revenues and in my experience a repayment plan can be arranged..............
 
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