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Legit revenue letter or scam?

  • 19-10-2011 11:51am
    #1
    Grolschevik
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,472 ✭✭✭


    Hi lads,

    I hope this isn't inappropriate, but there's a heated debate going on over in Bands & Musicians about the status of a letter receved by an amateur band. What's the take on this here?

    Here's the link:
    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056420446

    Basically, the OP thinks it's genuine, while others are adamant that it's a scam.

    OP: I got a letter yesterday asking me to declare all money that I've made from 'performing in musical venues'. My bandmates have all gotten letters too.

    Thing is, we've never made any money. Most of you on this forum will know how impossible it is to make any money as an original band. If we were in it for the money we'd play covers and go to pubs. We try to play showcase gigs where possible where no money changes hands whatsoever. The (very) odd time a venue might throw ya 30 quid for petrol or lob ya out a few free pints but even that's rare. If we run our own gig we'd maximum get 10-15 heads in which will only occasionally come close to covering the cost of running the show, never mind posters, food, petrol or sometimes accommodation. We obviously have no receipts for any of this, and can barely even remember ourselves. Bottom line is, this is a few lads with an (expensive) hobby, not a business.

    Those who favour the scam interpretation:

    Just because something has your PPS number on it doesn't make it 100% legit, a decent scam artist could find that out no bother at all. Seriously legal advice before you give anyone any more information or money.

    And
    One of your band mate's hasn't gotten a letter because this is probably a scam lol If the Revenue were going after the entire band he would've gotten a letter regardless of his district & besides all tax audits come straight from the tax office in Dublin if they suspect fraud.


    And
    If this is what the letter said then you are most definitely 100% being scammed. When people get tax audit notification in the post, the Revenue will generally give you an outline figure of what they think you owe them as a reason for wanting to audit you. The Revenue doesn't just send random letters going "hey, ah we heard you're in a band, send us all your info so we can see do you owe us money". WAKE UP

    And
    This kind of fraud isn't totally unheard of. All you would need is a decent colour printer/scanner & a copy of a Revenue letter & cheque. Change the a/c no the cheque is meant to be send too on the Revenue cheque & boom.


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