Correspondence

Correspondence

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Hector the Collector

A recent Friday lunchtime call from the local Collector informed me that a substantial amount of interest was due in respect of corporation tax. Further this amount must be paid by the following Friday. A series of questions then followed designed to elicit information about our ability to pay and to find out which assets were at the company's offices; the implication being that a bailiff would call round the following Friday should the amounts due remain outstanding.

The Collector then announced that we were unlikely to be aware of the amount owing. He was right! No demand or statement had been issued for this sum. A statement was duly requested and supplied and consisted of two pages of unintelligible printout which showed that the money...