Extra 450,000 caught in tax fiasco, admits HMRC

Laura Miller
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A further 450,000 people will be trapped in the government's tax chaos, HM Revenue and Customs admitted yesterday.

Letters will be sent out over the next three months claiming that they paid too little tax, and owe an average of £400 each. The total amount owed is £180m, the Daily Mail reports. In a move which will exasperate taxpayers, they are being asked to pay bills dating back four years for the 2007/08 tax year, something which they had no idea that they owed. The new victims come on top of around six million taxpayers who were caught up in HMRC's tax chaos, which was first revealed in September. Read more.. Jobs market 'on road to recovery' - papers The UK jobs market is "on the roa...

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