Angela Rayner's tax affairs

You are wasting your time. People on here won't be happy until Rayner is hanged, drawn and quartered, and they hate her so much that even if God himself came down and confirmed what you said, they would still cry 'conspiracy '.

There's a hard core of people in the UK who genuinely believe that only a certain class of people should be allowed to hold power.

She was only told yesterday afternoon by HMRC!

I recently had an investigation with HMRC. It went on for 5 months and was hugely stressful.
I had made a mistake and owed money. However because I had been totally transparent during the investigation and had made a genuine mistake, I was not fined anything or made to pay interest.

It actually states in the info you get at the beginning of the investigation that how you behave during it can determine if you are made to pay interest or a fine. It’s there for all to see and obviously not uncommon.

Isn't it funny that she's only mentioned today that she's been cleared? Given the damage it did her, wouldn't you have thought she'd announce it as soon as possible?

Unless of course she was only cleared this morning well before HMRC was open for business. Now where's that flying pigs emoji?

Yes, and of course Nigel Farage’s £5million donation thoroughly merits a full investigation, the difference is that we know what his party stands for and in my view he has no moral authority in any case after hoodwinking the voting public into Brexit alongside Johnson. The bus promising money for the NHS rather than the EU was a big persuader, however so many British import/export businesses have paid a heavy price with a direct impact on national economic growth.

The thing is if I wanted to be a politician and/or run the country I would be ALL over this stuff. I would have consulted 2 experts to make sure. But no these people think they can get away with it.

If you can’t take proper care of your own personal affairs and something as big as this, you should not be a leader of the country. There are plenty of honest, hard working people, why do we end up with self serving liars, cheats and people with no moral compass?

we can have an opinion on Rayner and Polanski and have one of Farage’s non tax payments too

i agree but the press are not taking it up but our politicians can certainly be asking Farage what tax have you paid on your £5 million gift but they are too tangled up in a leadership battle or making crowd pleasing statements to please their sm followers

She resigned as Deputy PM, she was investigated and she paid whatever was due and HMRC is satisfied.

What more do you want?

Now let's apply the same scrutiny to Farage house purchase and billionaire donations.

It seems to me that the press is happy to publicise financial issues when they affect people like Rayner and Polanski but stay strangely silent when it comes to Reform or people like Boris Johnson.

snobbery oh please 🙄

she was caught and paid up as many do once caught

the issues was that she ignored clear advice more than once which is something many people conveniently do and something she would have absolutely, and rightly so, been very vocally critical of

Politicians not paying their taxes is an absolute travesty when the hard-working public are all getting squeezed so much with the cost of living and are amongst the highest taxed in Europe. Angela Rayner sticks in my craw, taking the moral high ground with Starmer on the same day that she’s been forced to pay £40,000 in tax, that’s a year’s household income for many working people. I understand that it may be a complex area of taxation, but she has no moral authority in immediately pursuing high government office in the ‘working people’s party,’ immediately after paying up such a huge amount of money proving that she was caught indeed liable.

Wow what a coincidence

She has paid up, HRMC are interested in payments but she still ignored the very clear advice given twice to her

Angela Rayner is an idiot if she thinks this will now go away

For 9 months not to have been sufficient for your tax return… do you have very complicated and high value income, investments and property OP?

Just the tiniest bit of research… 30 seconds

This is pathetic. First people were calling for her head because 'she'd committed tax fraud'. Now an investigation clears her and it's because of who she is, because she just HAS to be guilty.

She can't win with the snobs of Mumsnet.

All a fiddle. While the rest of us pay. . I’m so sick of politicians. 🤬

You were in hospital

which the gov website states constitutes a “reasonable excuse”

So why didn’t you appeal?

Grifters gonna grift

Another Chartered Tax advisor and yes, can’t stand Angela Raynor but that’s a very complex area she fell foul of. Zack Polanski less so. And Richard Tice and Nadim Zahawi were just taking the Mickey!

Amazing coincidence isn't it that she decides to announce it today on the early morning news before hmrc offices were even open, j alsoa coincidence about Farage being investigated too, spin spin spin. They must think we're stupid.

We will never be privy to the full details (naturally), but there is every chance HMRC had already accepted her first, erroneous SDLT return.

I'm a tax advisor and HMRC are actually fairly reasonable, particularly when it comes to complex areas of legislation. And having dealt with trusts and SDLT (I'm a trust expert, that part I'm fine with) I can confirm that it is anything but simple, despite what the press keep saying. I hate dealing with SDLT. If I never had to look at it again I'd be very happy.

My guess is she's made the incorrect return to HMRC, HMRC have accepted it, then it came out it wasn't, and now everyone's had to do a bit of face-saving and consequently HMRC have waived penalties and interest. It wouldn't be the first time and it won't be the last. The difference here is that this has played out in public.

That doesn't say she didn't pay interest. It just says she was not fined which is understandable given the complex nature of the case