Human stupidity

[simont]

On Monday I fancied pasta for dinner (that is, special me-friendly gluten-free pasta), so I decided to buy the necessary stuff when I went to Sainsburys on my way home from work. I went to Sainsburys, bought everything else on my list, got home, and realised I had to resort to emergency food because I didn't have the wherewithal to cook pasta.

Today I fancied pasta for dinner, and was determined that I would definitely not make the same mistake again. And I didn't. Instead, I managed to forget to go to Sainsburys at all, so once again I got home and realised I wasn't going to have pasta this evening.

Also when I got home I discovered a letter from my bank helpfully informing me that they have helpfully been neglecting to deduct income tax from my savings interest this year, for no reason I can readily determine since they've been consistently deducting it from my other accounts for years. This will cost me some fiddly letters to the taxman, I expect. I insulted the bank at the top of my voice after reading the letter, but really I think I would have to admit that the frustration was at least as much pasta- as tax-related. Today my bank are not the only utterly gormless entity out of them and me.

Comments

[crazyscot.livejournal.com]

Do you get Tax Returns? If so, don't worry about it and it'll all come out in the wash. If not, what you should do next depends on whether or not your bank attempts to correct the mistake. If they don't, I'd suggest you write exactly once to the Tax Office who deal with you, quoting your NI number, explaining the situation as briefly as possible (pref. in words of one or fewer syllables) and showing the amount of tax not paid. Make sure it's clear which tax year(s) are affected. If the tax office want to do anything about it, they'll then change your tax code or send you a Return or somesuch. You risk that, if your bank then later decides after all that it is going to claw the tax off you, then it'll get even more fiddly...

[feanelwa.livejournal.com]

But pasta is not going to get you into serious trouble with the Inland Revenue. Mind you nor is the tax really, considering they are the ones who screwed up.