A riddle on a hotel bill..?

lolwut

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Three people check into a hotel. They pay £30 to the manager and go to their room. The manager suddenly remembers that the room rate is £25 and gives £5 to the bellboy to return to the people. On the way to the room the bellboy reasons that £5 would be difficult to share among three people so he pockets £2 and gives £1 to each person. Now each person paid £10 and got back £1. So they paid £9 each, totalling £27. The bellboy has £2, totalling £29. Where is the missing £1?
 
All 3 paid the Manager(25£) AND Bellboy(who kept 2£), a combined total of 27£. The bellboy did not receive his 2£ after the 27£ in TOTAL was accounted for.
 
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