Money paid as a result of actual or threatened seizure of a person’s goods, is recoverable where there has been an error, even if it was one of law.
Citations:
[1915] 3 KB 106, (1915) 84 LJKB 1752
Jurisdiction:
England and Wales
Cited by:
Cited – Woolwich Equitable Building Society v Inland Revenue Commissioners (2) HL 20-Jul-1992
The society had set out to assert that regulations were unlawful in creating a double taxation. It paid money on account of the tax demanded. It won and recovered the sums paid, but the revenue refused to pay any interest accrued on the sums paid. . .
Lists of cited by and citing cases may be incomplete.
Contract
Updated: 19 August 2022; Ref: scu.223219
