I am very pleased to report that HMRC
have allowed my longest standing claim under ESC A19 after five
letters, eighteen months, and just before going to the Adjudicator. My previous report
on the case was here
and I do think it only right to thank Keith Gordon for his campaign and in particular his article in Taxation in October 2012 which provided more ammunition for the fight.
Of course it should not have been a
fight. Not all cases have the same merit, but given that my client
visited HMRC after her husband's death specifically to make sure that
her pensions would be taxed at source correctly, it should have been
a simple matter for HMRC to agree to the claim. Of course they did
not, but let us be fair and say that they saw the light at last, and
be grateful.
In some ways the pleasure I get from
this win is more than a case I had a while back when HMRC backed off
in an enquiry from unreasonably demanding £250K plus from a client I
had just taken on. It is a great feeling to see off an injustice.
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