Angela Rayner's tax affairs

Oh the telegraph is lying ,oh dear

There’s no evidence that such a letter ever existed.

@Alexandra2001 I see so she didn't need the legal letter then ?

The timescales HMRC have taken on AR, are on par with most other tax decisions.

...heading towards 8 months... yet people claim she has received favourable treatment....

FWIW in my 2 cases with HMRC, they took 4 to 5 months, no lawyer required.

If you need specialist tax advice it’s highly unlikely you wouldn’t be able to afford to pay for it. We’re not talking about mistake in her tax code here.

Oh I see so it wasnt our efficient tax system that stopped this it was her being able to afford solicitors ....ok.
As long as she applies this to other people maybe give us all legal aid so we can also threaten the tax office !

If you think the tax issue was a honest mistake, why do you despise her? What else has she potentially done that’s worthy of such strong feelings?

Time for the Telegraph to provide proof then. Because they're not at all biased against AR and didn't at all have one of their columnists write a smear piece about her very recently.

Ah, The Telegraph, that impeccably truthful and accurate source.

Probably in the Telegraph;

HMRC closed its investigation into Angela Rayner’s £40,000 tax bill just 24 hours after her lawyers demanded a decision, in a move that cleared her path to challenge Sir Keir Starmer...

After disastrous local election results for Labour and mounting calls for Sir Keir to resign, Ms Rayner’s lawyer wrote to HMRC on Monday, requesting her case be closed “as soon as possible”, The Telegraph can disclose.

HMRC replied the following day, informing Ms Rayner that it would take no further action against her in the case, which had threatened to torpedo her chances of a return to front-line politics.

On Thursday morning, Ms Rayner announced that she had settled the £40,000 in unpaid stamp duty, paving the way for her to join a potential Labour leadership challenge.

Her team refused to say when the payment had been made, but The Telegraph understands it was at the beginning of this week.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2026/05/14/rayner-cleared-tax-inquiry-24-hours-after-lawyer-letter/

Agreed. Citation or it never happened.

File under "Things that never happened"

Where did you read that?

Im pissed off that I read her lawyer wrote to them on the Monday telling them it was taking too long and they cleared her on the Tuesday. I’ve been waiting over 12 months for replies to letters about our clients. Stinks to high heaven. She’s not fit to be a minister let alone PM.

No matter what else has been said on this thread, OP, I do hope you are successful in getting your fine refunded because clearly you had major mitigating circumstances.

Did you give the right evidence of your illness for example medical letters, any evidence via your GP. Illness is definitely a valid reason, not just a hospital say. The reality is your illness meant you could have been incapacitated for longer than just the hospital stay.

i know it's really hard when you don't necessarily have the strength and wherewithal to keep fighting, but try again because it will at least help you with closure. If you have any RL support, use that as well.

The real Angela is desperately trying not to stand up. She, like Streeting, is desperate for the power that they can see within their grasp. Just think if she had kept her book clean, she'd be a shoe in to replace Starmer. Then the party's misogynists would have rallied around trying to find a way to not elect a female PM.

And anyway, what do they like to say?

Enjoy the privilege of being able to pay taxes, it is a huge privilege to be able to! Do your bit for the country.

I think the jury is out there on who would destroy Britain more - Angela Rayner or Farage, ahem.
If Angela Rayner backstabs Sir Keir Starmer she hardly gets to keep the morale high ground, even if it is true that she was “Wronged”. I mean the law is the law and death and taxes, ah - it is not about “wronged”. People enjoy it because additional stamp duty although introduced by the Tories is more of a leftie control measure. So if she got stung on some technical grounds, people enjoy the drama of it. And that is where it ends. If she feels punished by the tax system, join the queue!
But for some of us, we really just did want to understand the law behind it all. It needs reform and clarification.

Why is it even a competition as to which MP behaves more dishonourably? If you're serious about expecting honourable behaviour you would be applying that equally. Your last statement is pure hyperbole.

This situation wasn't due to negligence, like saying 'Forget it, I haven't filed my return,' nor was it about attempting to exploit a loophole by transferring my house to my girlfriend to avoid taxes, similar to what Farage did. She acted in good faith, but unfortunately, the advice she received was wrong, particularly because it involved her disabled son. I feel profound despair for anyone who equates her actions with the morally dubious behaviour of that con artist whom racists want to see destroy Britain.