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HMRC payment went into account number recycled by Barclays and new holder did not return cash
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HMRC payment went into account number recycled by Barclays and new holder did not return cash
Staff processing a £23 parcels duty rebate paid the life-changing sum into a woman’s bank account
Last modified on Mon 21 Dec 2020 02.03 EST Can you help me to get back a £453 tax rebate that HMRC has paid into someone else’s bank account? The matter is partially my fault, in that I gave the tax office the wrong bank details – using an account number from one Santander account, with the sort code from another we also hold. When the rebate didn’t arrive, I queried it. After several months of investigating with both the bank and HMRC it emerged that the money had been paid into somebody else’s account . Santander knows exactly who it went to, but won’t follow this up, citing data...