My boyfriend is in debt with HM Revenue

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My boyfriend lives with me. I've just recently found out that he owes £16,000 to HM revenue as he is self employed. He has given his works place as his address and HM customs has gone to his work place to seize goods. What I'd like to know is can they come to my house and take my things as every thing is in my name and not his

fergoose it's not that I don't believe you, I do 5 years ago they wrote off £2000 of debt I had. Things have changed and they don't now, we have a friend who was literally doing favours to his friends for free - no payment in kind/bartering or anything just parts for fixing cars because he likes doing it. His ex told HMRC and they have calculated how much he should have charged for each job and how much they could have taxed him for it - he is being taken to court for £7000! They've a licence to charge for money you've never earn't and they are using it on people.

I don't think it sounds like it is impossible for him to sort out - other posters are correct that your main problem is him hiding it from you and ignoring the problem. He needs to stop burying his head in the sand, luckily it doesn't sound like you have anything to worry about, only that his income will drop so he won't have as much money. You can get IVA type agreements for buisness which should keep his creditors happy. You might want to post on Money Savings Expert, there is more traffic there and plenty of experienced posters who will probably be abel to tell you where to send him to get help. I personally wouldn't take over unless I was prepared to run his life/buiness for the foreseeable future as it's unlikely he will learn unless he has to get himself out of the mess.

Well I confronted him last night and after a lot of raised voices, he told me that the tax bill has been calculated for next tax year as well and he has been paying £500 a month to the tax people. So I asked him why did they go to your place of work and he said because they thought he owned the company and it was at that point he made an agreement with them. this was last year apparently. Any way I have decided as you've adviced that he should sort his own bills out and I won't have any thing to do with it. I have also decided to save a bit more money each month just incase things go wrong as I dont believe every thing he says. I have made it clear to him that I will not be helping him out in any way shape or form and if he decides to play up and say he can't afford to pay me any money then he's out xxx

They don't assume someone owns the company unless told.

Well done for being firm, he is paying a big chunkout of his salary every month make sure he can still pay his share of costs.