‘HMRC gave me £775,000 by mistake – and it’s turned into a nightmare’

Staff processing a £23 parcels duty rebate paid the life-changing sum into a woman’s bank account

A woman who woke up to find more than three-quarters of a million pounds had been deposited in her bank account by HMRC has described how she spent a year waiting for it to realise its mistake and reclaim the money and worrying about what would happen when it did.

In August 2020, Helen Peters*, a self-employed mother of a five-year-old, looked at her bank statement and found that instead of being mildly overdrawn, a £774,839.39 Bacs payment from the Revenue had sent her account very much into the black.

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source https://www.theguardian.com/money/2021/dec/04/hmrc-mistake-return-cash-revenue