HMRC hounds expat for more than seven years - for money he never 借りがあるd them in the first place
- One Briton was sent 多重の 罰金s from HMRC for not とじ込み／提出するing a 税金 return
- But he was not 適格の to 支払う／賃金 税金 and had moved to New Zealand 十分な time?
An expat who retired to New Zealand 設立する there was no escaping a 目録 of 失敗s from HM 歳入 & Customs, which wrongly hounded him to とじ込み／提出する 税金 returns for more than seven years.
Michael Johnson, 77, left the UK to live in New Zealand in 2007 after a career in the 海軍 and the 科学（工学）技術 部門.
Johnson heard nothing from HMRC for 10 years, until he got a letter out of the blue in February 2017.
The letter was a £100 罰金 for not sending his 税金 return in both 2015/16 and 2016/17.
The taxman cometh: HMRC could not be dissuaded from sending 多重の 罰金s and letters?
Johnson was not 適格の to 支払う／賃金 any 税金 in the UK, so sent HMRC a copy of his New Zealand パスポート, 同様に as photocopies of the taxman's letters.
HMRC wrote 支援する to apologise, 確認するd he did not need to 支払う／賃金 any 税金, cancelled the £100 罰金 and paid £25 in 補償（金） to say sorry for the mistake and for Johnson's time trying to 直す／買収する，八百長をする the 問題／発行する.
The taxman said the mistake was 予定 to wrongly 記録，記録的な／記録するing that Johnson was self-雇うd, and said it had 解決するd the problem.
Johnson thought that was the end of the 事柄 - but a year later he received another HMRC letter 需要・要求するing he とじ込み／提出する a 税金 return, 同様に as another £100 罰金.
Once again, Johnson sent a 堅固に worded letter to HMRC, telling the taxman he was 'a New Zealand 国民 and ーするつもりである to die here' and therefore 借りがあるd no 税金.
HMRC apologised again, 説 it had made the same mistake as in 2017. The 税金 団体／死体 cancelled the 罰金 and paid him £35 in 補償（金）.
Johnson said: 'I am now 77 and this stuff really 苦しめるs me. The letters, the wasted time, the copies and the 脅しs from HMRC. Why am I 存在 迫害するd?'
Another year went by, and yet again a n HMRC letter landed on Johnson's doormat.
This time the letter was not a 罰金, but a notice that the 税金 団体／死体 had changed his 税金 code.
Johnson 反対するd, and the taxman apologised again, 説 the error was 予定 to Johnson's 私的な 年金 provider changing his 詳細（に述べる）s with HMRC.?
In 返答, HMRC's computer system assumed the change meant Johnson was getting a larger 年金, which he wasn't.
Again, HMRC said sorry and paid another £25 in 補償（金）.
A few years then went by, but in 2021 Johnson received another £100 罰金 from HMRC for 恐らく not とじ込み／提出するing a 税金 return.
The exasperated Johnson sent another letter to HMRC, which said sorry, paid him £35 and said: 'We have 明確に 公式文書，認めるd that you are 免除された from UK 税金 with 影響 from 6 April 2010.'
But Johnson got another HMRC letter in April 2024, 説 he 借りがあるd it £100 for not とじ込み／提出するing a 税金 return on time.
An exasperated Johnson had finally had enough, and 接触するd This is Money to try to get the problem finally 解決するd.
HMRC then apologised again, 申し込む／申し出d Johnson yet more 補償（金） and 約束d the 問題／発行する would not come up again.
An HMRC spokesperson said: 'We have apologised to Mr Johnson and 訂正するd his 記録，記録的な／記録する to make sure this doesn’t happen again.'
However, Johnson is not 確信して the 問題／発行する has finally been 解決するd.
He said: 'On a personal level, I feel little 信用／信任 that this will not reoccur. I have no 代案／選択肢 but to believe what they say.
'I believe that the people at HMRC have 意向s to sort it because errors waste their time, money and 成果／努力 but the computer system took 活動／戦闘s without human 介入 and is then 非難するd without any obvious 支配（する）／統制する.'
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