🚨HMRC is taking money from people who don't owe it, then making them prove their innocence to get it back
The taxman now gets your bank interest automatically, your eBay and Vinted sales once you're selling regularly, and uses AI to scan social media in criminal cases. It says that's the limit, for now…
But its own plans describe AI becoming part of everyday tax work, and MPs have warned that trusting a machine to be right is exactly what caused the Post Office scandal
The systems already get it wrong. In one case HMRC estimated someone's savings interest at £3,847 when the real figure was £94, and they overpaid £1,476 in tax before it was caught
Savers have been taxed on interest from ISAs, which is meant to be tax-free, and on interest that never existed at all
When it happens, the money goes first and you fight to get it back. People report hours on the phone, and HMRC cuts you off automatically after 70 minutes. In one year it cut off more than 40,000 callers that way
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NEW: Sunday Times reports Hampshire Police wanted to portray Henry Nowak as the aggressor in a statement THREE DAYS after his death.
They changed the wording after outrage from his grieving family.
By that point, police had ample evidence that the killer, Digwa, was a liar.
. #HenryNowak's father, Mark Nowak, had to battle to stop the police issuing a statement that the incident of the murder of Henry Nowak had been a racially aggravated incident overall, despite no evidence.
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Three ways to improve high streets by *raising* business rates:
1. Higher rates on long-empty shops, to force realistic rents
2. End exemption for charity shops.
3. Make landlords pay when candy/vape shops vanish with unpaid rates. They'll ensure rates are paid up-front.
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