many thanks for all your replys.
i'll give a bit more of back ground to the story.
in 1997 i was self employed hair dresser and had been since 1990,i always did my tax returns myself.
in 1998 i sold my shop and went to work for someone alse in there shop. i told the tax that i was no longer self emloyed.
ithought that was that.
at the end of the tax year i was sent a self assesment. i rang the tax office and told them. they said ok and they woild update my records.
a few months later they sent me an estermated tax bill for £2169 for that year.
i went in to the tax office to sort this out.
they said that it was an estermate and that they had no record of me ringing in and telling them that i was no longer self employed.
i told them who i was working for, it was only part time for two days a week and i was not self employed, it was for a local shop.
This went on for a while, they would send me a bill reminder, i would go over to the office and they would say it was automaticaly sent out and they would sort it out.
then one day in 2003 i got a visit from someone for the recovery deptment.
they said that i owed 3 years tax returns.
i went through all the stuff yet again and had to sort it out.
the recovery didnt want know basicaly.
aventually i got most of it sorted apart from the estamated year which was already with recovery.
during this time a had alot of family probs and illnesses, but i still tried to sort it out the best i could.
in 2005 i got another letter saying owed the £2164 again and the three years tax returns again( which wasall sorted two years erlier).
Got the three years off mt record again, but they said i owed the £2164.
I went back to the main tax office, they said that they had records of me working for someone, and i should not have got the essessment.
I thought that they were going to sort it out. insted i kept getting letters from recovey, when i called them they said i had sort it out with the office. when i called them they said it was sorted.
this went on and on.
in 2005 i got a letter sayng i was getting a forced bankrutcy order made against me.
i thought that would mean i did not have to pay it and didnt really know what it ment.
then i got a letter from my trustee asking for records of my estate.
that was july 2005, by nov 2006 the bill had gone from £2164 to £25,380 in less then a year!
i was total depressed and could not belive this!
i got an accountant who said he would sort it all out.Thougght it would be ok and get it sorted out.
He did nothing really.
i got a letter a few months ago to say that they were going for possetion of my house, my husband did not know about this or the massive bill.
My acountant tried to stop them by saying that i didnt owe the money in the fisrt place and was tring to sort a meeting out with the inland revenue. but thay just put the court case back a few weeks.He also said that by time the new date arrived h would sort it out.
the long and short of it was he didnt.
When i found out the case was being herd i flew through to tyhe court on my own, i could not get i touch with my accountant (found out now that he was in america).
i tried to tell the judge what had happend over that last few year, he would not even let me speak, there was no duty solisitor availible.
he said i had to give up vacant possession on may 6th 2008.i wasin bits, the trustee's solistor told my to get a bankruptcy solisitor to gte help.
My husband got a letter a few days later telling him .
we went to see a solistor and was told they would help us.
They said we would have to remortgage to pay the £25k off.
We also went to see the trustee, she said that th bill had risen to £32k. we told her that i didnt even owe the money in the frist place. she said that we had to pay it then after try to sort the tax out.
We got a remortgage sorted for the money, then our mortgage adviser got a last minute email saying it has risen again to £35,500.That wason may 1st
I just cant belive this is happening to us.
We have been in touch with our solisitor on the same day.
we complained about the last minute hike in the money.
Thay sent us a letter that day stating that they also do work for our trustee and would not be able to contest any prob with the bill and did we want to go on with the annulment.we then rang our trustee who said it was further intrest and if we did not pay it the house would be going up for sale on the 6th of may.
i cant belive this is happening.
we have sorted out the mortgage now and sign on monday.
our house is worth £115,000 , we have £29,000 mortgage.
the bill is 920 petition cost,1564 o r balance,1950 legal costs,160 disburtsments,12415 trutees remunaration,500 future costs,12200 inland revenue costs, 40 c c costs.
plus another 3300 dti and further intrest.
feel like i am slowly cutting my own throat!
