Who is BDW?
BDW is Baron David Ward. He created his Affidavit and published it so that it’s on the public record for all to use. He explains how it all came about…
I will be honest back in 2009 I knew nothing and I crapped myself.
If I don’t find this £7K I am going to Jail.
People have asked me why I ever started. What was it that started me going?
There were many reasons. But if I had to point out one decisive point it was HMR&C. HMR&C sent me a Tax return for £7K. Which was nice when £7K Just pops into your Bank account but all it said in the listing as to where it came from was “SA”.
It took me a while to work out that the “SA” was self assessment and this £7K came from the Tax office HMR&C. So you pay some bills and sort out some credit cards. Then HMR&C want the £7K Back again blaming me for an inexactness in my Tax return. I will be honest back in 2009 I knew nothing and I crapped myself. If I don’t find this £7K I am going to Jail. I have 7 days to refund the HMR&C. You can bet your sweet life there was some correspondence between me and HMR&C.
I was most perturbed. SO my first response was to note the distress this has caused and they had better show me what the problem was. So they did. They sent me a computer screenshot as I had completed my end of year self assessment on the HMR&C website. Now I am a Microsoft Certifies Systems Engineer Certified by Microsoft and I can tell you that there isn’t anything I don’t know about Computers or Web pages and how it all works. I know the SQL and the PHP and the HTML. ALL of it so if there is something wrong on that screenshot I will eventually see it and work it out.
There was something wrong.
There was something Very wrong. Very-Very Wrong indeed.
It took me about a week just looking at the page. I just kept looking at this computer screen shot because my brain was telling me there was something wrong. There was something wrong. There was something Very wrong. Very-Very Wrong indeed. When you are typing data like your name or address or any details at all on a computer form. All that Data has to be quantified and locked down before it is added to the SQL Database. Now if you don’t lock these sells down that people type into and they are left unqualified and some smart hacker decides to insert some Machine Code you can kiss the server and the hard drive good buy. Machine code is powerful. This is my world and there is nothing I do not know. The Two sells for the £Gross Income and Tax amount paid had not been locked down. So there should be the usual red Box around what is wrong to correct before it is processed. Everyone has seen that when filling in a Web Form.
You’re going to put me in Jail Mother Fucker?? I don’t think so.
Oooops. HMR&C have screwed up Big on their website and I knew exactly what that screw up was. So I drafted out a very technical letter, giving a very technical and exact description of exactly HOW HMR&C has screwed up and it is their entire fault. This is Grosse incompetence. Not only is it Grosse incompetence they have sent me a computer screen shot which was the incontestable evidence of that Grosse incompetence. You can imagine the great Joy it gave me to type up that response letter. I have gone from being scared shitless about going to Jail to a big smile on my ace because HMR&C have crewed up big time. Now there is not many people walking this planet that could work all that out from a computer screenshot. But this is me and this is what I do for a living. This is a Big Screw up for HMR&C and I do mean a really Big Screw Up. This is cash. This is people’s lives. This can get you in Jail for Nothing and it is HMR&C’s Fault. You’re going to put me in Jail Mother Fucker?? I don’t think so. You are pissing off the wrong guy and I have got you by the balls with this one.
It took a few weeks for HMR&C to respond. About three months. There was a Letter from a Mr Andy White and all it said was that I have a statutory obligation to pay tax. …. Really?? … Is that right?? WTF is a statutory obligation?? Time to fire up Google for some answers. Don’t forget that back in 2009 I knew nothing at all. Apart from being a computer technical genius the rest of my head was a vegetable. WTF is a Statutory obligation?? I don’t know.
– BDW 15/07/2019