Even so, how can it be acceptable / allowed that we can’t we claim back these fines / overpayments etc, even when they admit they have fucked up ?
I’m certainly not saying it’s acceptable - just observing that incompetence, inefficiency and failure is something that HMRC have both weaponised and monetised - and that’s something that they’ve copied from so-called “service” industries.
Think about it: why spend money doing a job well and making a flawless product, when you can just keep rebranding the same old broken, useless shit AND charge people more money for you to sort out your own failures?
It’s kinda genius.
Evil genius.
FWVLIW, I’ve been there too, and I do sympathise.
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It looks like the arse has fallen out of the body part harvesting industry.
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It used to cost an arm and a leg
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Tell me about it, my fine currently stands at £18,000
They incorrectly took an extra £6400 in a VAT direct debit payment from me in March 23. Despite numerous letters and phone calls I never got any response. In follow up calls they actually said they had no record of me calling previously.
I then filed a complaint which got rejected, followed by an appeal which also got rejected.
They only just admitted in feb that they owe me £6k after my accountant filed a complaint with them. Despite their system saying overpayments are processed within 48hrs I still haven’t received it back.
And to top it off they’ve charged me £1000 interest on my self assessment tax from 22/23 which isn’t due until july.
I fucking hate and despise those cunts.
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FFS 
To date and touch wood I’ve never had problems with VAT but self assessment, fuck me what a horror show. I don’t think I’ve ever had a correct statement or request from them, they change from month to month like some kind of random number generator, and leave you totally unclear as to how much they think you owe them, and even less clear as to how they arrived at that figure. I pay my bill in January every year and they either refuse to include this in the statement or just get the amount wrong. Fucking pillocks.
Hel’s SA has been even worse. They deleted her online account and then when we complained that we couldn’t file returns they ignored that and went straight to the usual fines, fines on top of the fines and spamming interest. Still not resolved after 18 months.
I’d quite happily go uni-bomber on the cunts.
That is fucking horrific
Really sorry to hear about that, what an utter nightmare. Hope it gets resolved asap.
Ah yes the whole payment on account bollocks, utterly random with no logic to it. Pay tax in Jan and another random chunk again in July which then magically vanishes.
Or even day to day
Simon Case, what a smug and condescending prick
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Never seen the point of his work but “eye of the beholder and all that” but forging dates is a bit of a cunty move when it’s clearly done to make them more valuable as part of the original period.
Although them trying to defend it is rather amusing
Hirst’s lawyers later clarified that while using the date of conception in the title was the artist’s “usual approach” for formaldehyde works, he did sometimes use the date the sculptures were made.
That approach, however, appears at odds with industry norms in the art world. The Guardian consulted a range of art vendors, gallerists, academics and auction houses, including some who have in the past exhibited or sold Hirst’s works. All said the date assigned to a contemporary artwork ordinarily denoted the year it was physically created – not the year it was conceived.
He’s always been one for maximising his financial returns. His limited edition print runs can be ‘limited’ to a large number (I’ve got one, for the sake of having art by someone with the same name as me, where the print run was 1,000).
I saw him in a documentary once where he was at some gallery party, I think, and as he was being followed by a cameraman he turned, smiled and said that when he started out no-one had ever told him that making art would be easy “But”, he grinned, “it is !”.
Shyster.
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CP to the song that’s just played on RP
Has got a tinkly sound at the beginning that sounds just like the ring camera motion/person alert, have just spent 5 mins wondering about the house trying to find my fucking phone
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I unexpectedly encountered one at the Metropolitan Museum in New York back in 2008. Quite a striking object up close.
Security staff didn’t like people taking pics much 
I think DH may owe me a pint. I used to have a drink in the Coburg pub in Leeds with aJacob Kramer Art College teacher. There was usually an indigent student in attendance. One of them could well have been DH. The timescale fits. A Zelig moment, like having a piss next to Captain Beefheart.
Fucking belt on the PT just snapped 