Threatening demand

For your information I attach a redacted copy of a letter recently received by one of our clients in respect of a debt for approximately £400.

The letter looks like a standard letter and I think that you may receive feedback from other readers on this. Would it be possible to draw attention to this objectionable approach in Taxation.

Robert Ames Wilson & Co

The letter:

‘Self Assessment amount overdue £XXX

‘Nine out of ten people in Britain pay their tax on time and hundreds of thousands of people a week have been contacting us to do this. It is very important that everybody pays their tax promptly to ensure that essential services can be provided.

‘I don’t seem to have received your payment of tax due by 31 January. I...