Debt pronWatching TV the other day we caught one of these "Bank of Mummy or the Wife" type shows and we thought, "This is Debt Pron." I.e. peoples financial problems exploited for the voyeuristic pleasure of others. Then we thought, "We bet lots of people on B3ta have massive financial problems. Let's exploit them." So, confess them all. Dodgy credit cards, lending money to some bloke in the pub, visits from the bailiffs, using one card to pay off another. We want to wallow in your fiscal pain. So, what is your biggest money fuck up?
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rob, Thu 23 Nov 2006, 19:50)
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"Er... we just made it up"I once lived and worked abroad for a few years. When I returned to the UK I received a huge tax statement from the Inland Revenue, based on entirely fictitious UK earnings for the period, loaded with surcharges and surcharges of surcharges.
Turned out they had mislaid my change of address letter and had just been 'estimating' (i.e. making up) earnings for the period.
After I sent them all my foreign tax documents they conceded I didn't actually owe them anything at all.
Fine. But it won't bring back those people who got similar statements and decided to just put their head in the gas oven.
(, Mon 27 Nov 2006, 7:22, Reply)
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