HMRC reveals bizarre tax return excuses of 2017
By Tom Carnegie, 19 Jan 18
Spilt coffee, a wife who sees aliens and vertigo were just some of the excuses HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) received in 2017 from people who failed to file their tax returns. Click through the slides to see some of the other intriguing excuses and some of the wildly optimistic expense claims the organisation received.
Vertigo
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A recent excuse HMRC received was from a man who said his ex-wife left his tax returns upstairs, but he suffered from vertigo and could not go up the stairs to retrieve them.
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