A week elapsed and I received a response from Revenue via My Enquiries. A thick stupid utterly useless generic cut and paste response in three short paragraphs that clearly demonstrates incompetence or carelessness or the inability to comprehend English or a mix of all three. To paraphrase:
- DIRT is a final Liability Tax
- Calculating and Charging DIRT is the responsibility of the Financial Institution not Revenue
- Please obtain and send a statement from the Financial Institution confirming the total DIRT Deducted
I've sent off the statement and asked that they read my original e-mail, correct the coding of the declaration and reissue the SOL with the DIRT calculation corrected.
What a total waste of time and how utterly frustrating that they are unable to (a) calculate this correctly first day and (b) incapable of correcting he error when it is spelled out to them. Unfortunately I cannot take this to the Tax Appeal Commissioners until such time as they issue "a final assessment"