PAYE problems could affect millions more

It had previously been estimated around six million people were impacted by the problem, which could lead to demands for extra payments or refunds. However, giving evidence before the public accounts committee yesterday, Dame Lesley Strathie, HMRC's chief executive, admitted up to ten million cases have not been looked at yet, meaning the actual number could end up significantly higher. She said: "The numbers will keep moving. Each time we do another batch we test assumptions against reality and judge what we think is in the rest of the mix. "The ten million are those cases that ar...