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A rather terrifying letter from HM Revenue & Customs has just dropped through my letter box. ‘I will seize your possessions and arrange to have them sold at public auction,’ it states crossly. This is regarding, as I find out later during a call to an imperious woman (no, I didn’t call her a cow, although I was tempted) at the debt-recovery office in Somerset, a payment of tax on account that is two working days late. Dear God, I feel as though I am living in a police state, even when I’m not in my car having speed guns aimed at my head. When I once refused to pay the London Congestion Charge, because I had been forced down a road within the red charging zone by a really rude policeman due to a traffic accident, the costs quickly escalated to £800, which a bailiff arrived very early one morning to collect. It is virtually... [read full story]
