Billy Young's Blog - Posts Tagged "taxs"

There has been a lot on the news recently about a glitch with the computers at the tax office here in the UK. Well it seems to have struck me. This week I noticed my wages were short. On looking closely at my wage slip it was soon apparent that I had been overtaxed by £30. Not a small amount when your on the minimal pay bracket I can assure you. Well as you can imagine I was on the phone to the tax office as soon as I got home or rather I had Magz doing it as I don’t like talking to strangers. Well the short of it is that I was right but it will take a few weeks to sort out. Not what I wanted to hear as it will mean some belt tightening when the belt is already cutting off the blood to my feet. I just hope that it doesn’t take too long to sort out. Of course when it is I can expect to get the overpaid amount back though that is likely to take even longer to get. That is after all how these things usual go.
It does make you wonder though about how this can still be happening after it being all over the news. You would have thought that someone would have been put in charge of fixing the problem and making sure it didn’t happen again. That though would be asking a lot from the government. They aren’t known for the speed of correcting troubles of this nature are they? No before they do that they will need to spend a small fortune to investigate how the error occurred in the first place. Then they will spend more in finding how to fix it and even more on the solution. Doesn’t it just warm the heart thinking about it, hehehe?