Tax Rebates

Just received in the post this morning
A tax rebate for the princely sum of 0 pounds and 0 pence.

Why the hell do they send out these cheques
I just don't get it.

It must cost a fortune to make up the cheque and post it

has this happened to any one else in the forum


Robert

 

It sounds typical of the monkey's they have in junior admin at the inland revenue.

 

they never send me out on, i gotta supply them with the information their spose to have in the first place.i havent bothered in years now and i know they ow me a small fortune but when i enquire about it they just run me around in circles.it realy peeves me off as well, i know ive paid to much tax why dont they? after all their the ones who ive paid it to.one things for sure though, if i dident pay my council tax i would be in jail.whers the justice i ask you?

 

yep, the inland revenue owe my parents £6.50 robbbing bastards. Its taken them 3 years and still no refund, we are not chasing it up because its not worth it.

 

thing is though that if 1 million ppl are owed £6.50??????

thats a lot of dosh floating around.

 

Why don't you reply, with a photocopy of the cheque, complaining that they've missed a 1 and several zeroes off the beginning ;-)

 

robert,
sounds like a reverse of the old superman hacking scam where all the sub penny fractions would be diverted to an account. you've probably been sent a cheque for 0.000001p which got rounded down to 0 and printed. probably 2 separate areas of the program written by different programmers assuming that the other was checking for rounding inconsistencies... i say either frame the cheque or try to cash it and see if you can bring the banking system to a grinding divide by 0 halt.
cheers

julian

 

Yeah - that divide by zero thing has happened before at banks - pure class!

 

Yep thats probably why they do it, its a nice little earner for them. Think about the interest they will make on it too.

 

Haha Nice one Julian
I don't know what the bank teller would say though......

Robert

 

I'm sure they dearly wanted to send you a rebate for a decent amount. The trouble is they can't afford to because they need the money to pay that family that was on "Wife Swop" the other night i.e. the ones with 8 kids who get £36,500 per year in benefits!

Don't get me started....

:grrr:

Alright you asked for it.... we all pay for their house/upkeep - they then do this - :buddies: all the time, produce EIGHT of these:

:baby:

And we pay for them too.

On top of this we keep them in these - :MILD: (30 a day for her, 20 for him)

And no doubt a few of these - :guiness:

In spite of all this, their attitude to the tax payer is :NADowner:

It makes me :chunder:

Matt.