Pensioners given days to meet shock HMRC tax demands

Many of those being sent demands are pensioners on low incomes who had been told they would have more than a year to pay back the tax they owed. Those with the largest bills believed they could have up to three years, the Money Mail reports, but instead they are being given just a month to pay the bill. Most of those affected are among the 1.4 million sent tax demands totalling £3.8bn after HMRC admitted last September it had got millions of tax bills wrong. According to the Mail, one pensioner was sent a letter on February 4 saying they must pay £2,865.20 by March 5. In another ca...