Angela Rayner's tax affairs

[Ihateboris]

I was a few days late submitting my Tax Return due to being in hospital last year and as result I was charged £100 late filing penalty.

AIBU to think that Angela Rayner should have to pay interest and penalties for underpayment of Stamp Duty. This makes me so fucking angry.

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.

And thank you to the posters suggesting I can get my fine repaid. I'm going to try to do this so thank you. Oh, and I've already filed my 2026 Tax Return so will not be in that position again!

Thanks so much for your post . I've now gathered the information together and will try to get the fine repaid. According to many on here, the Inland Revenue are very lenient so fingers crossed 🤞

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.

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.

Where did you read that?

File under "Things that never happened"

Agreed. Citation or it never happened.

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/

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

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.

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?

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 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.

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.

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

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

Oh the telegraph is lying ,oh dear

We don't know that but its a heavily biased news outlet and their track record on claims against Rayner.... plus, if they had such a letter, they would have published it.

So on balance, i think they have made it up.

Like i said, its taken HMRC many months, her detractors seem to want us all to think HMRC cleared her with days.

It wouldn’t be the first time.

https://pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/nationals/faked-telegraph-article/

😂

I’m a self described socialist too. I expect you despise me too despite knowing the square root of fuck all about me.