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.

You were in hospital

which the gov website states constitutes a “reasonable excuse”

So why didn’t you appeal?

I did appeal. After I'd paid the fine as I was fucking scared to death. I think I'll try again though having read this thread, so thank you.

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

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.

Just the tiniest bit of research… 30 seconds

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?

No, if only. I was in and out of hospital having had a nervous breakdown. Thank you for asking x

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

Could I go back to HMRC and request a refund of the fine, even though some time has elapsed?.thank you

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.

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

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.

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

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?

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.

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?

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.

She was only told yesterday afternoon by HMRC!

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.

It really has absolutely nothing to do with her being a woman or her background and everything to do with her being completely crap and totally not up to the job.

No one cares that Streeting is gay, no one cares that Andy Burnham's parents were a telephone engineer and a receptionist and working class.
Yvette Cooper is the cleverest of all the potential candidates and it's irrelevant that she is a woman.

But AR is crap, not up to the job and a "Labour Liz Truss".

Of course she was

When do you think she was told? Is it a realistic possibility that she knew weeks ago and left it until now to impart that information? Catch yourself on.

Please explain what would be the advantage of her lying about when she got this news.

Remember anyone can come out from HMRC and make a correction to her statement if she is lying.

Did you not get the multiple emails and texts they send before the end of the tax year? Did you not appeal the "fine" Angela Rayner has been investigated and cleared and paid her underpayment I don't think there is anything you need to be this angry about just do your taxes or get an accountant to do them in plenty of time.

Don’t believe everything you see on Social media. Rayner has paid up, it wasn’t an avoidance it was a mistake. Jack Polanski - even his local council weren’t sure of the rules… yet we had months of news paper comments on Rayner and they’re still going after Polanski.

but 5 million from a Thai business man is okay…

at least this shows who is owned by the media.