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Originally Posted by jambutty
It is wrong for the government to take money from a citizen’s account without the account holder’s authority or without due process in a court of law to establish beyond the balance of probabilities that the debt exists and has not been settled.
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Repeating what I said in an earlier post, no legal or distraint proceedings are ever put in place without giving the taxpayer ample opportunity to pay the debt. There is plenty of scope for the debtor to appeal against the amount due though, with self assessment,
you have completed a Return that says what you owe.
Similarly if you settle the debt it is immediately recorded. If for some reason you pay and it is not recorded there are ways of tracing where the money is. This happens just occasionally, for instance when people send payment with an incorrect reference number, and it is always traced. No proceedings continue while such a dispute is ongoing.