Code of Practice 26? (PDF Format)
What happens if we’ve paid you too much tax credit?
Piles of Money
Biggest Tax Credits Pay out Ever, and on Time!!!
Monday 11 August 2008
How tax credits hit the rocks
How tax credits hit the rocks.
With Labour all at sea and rumours of mutiny clouding round Captain Gordon Brown, is his old flagship, HMS Tax Credits, heading for the breaker’s yard? Word is that many in Whitehall now believe that this once-vaunted policy is unseaworthy – so much so that insiders expect it to be scuttled by the next government. (Meaning the Tories? “Possibly,” says one senior figure. “Or possibly by a Labour prime minister who is not Gordon Brown.”) Snippets emerging from insiders suggest tax credits were doomed to disaster from their launch five years ago.
With Labour all at sea and rumours of mutiny clouding round Captain Gordon Brown, is his old flagship, HMS Tax Credits, heading for the breaker’s yard? Word is that many in Whitehall now believe that this once-vaunted policy is unseaworthy – so much so that insiders expect it to be scuttled by the next government. (Meaning the Tories? “Possibly,” says one senior figure. “Or possibly by a Labour prime minister who is not Gordon Brown.”) Snippets emerging from insiders suggest tax credits were doomed to disaster from their launch five years ago.
Friday 1 August 2008
The health impact of a Tax Credit overpayment
The health impact of a Tax Credit overpayment has been known about since the 'Money With Your Name On It' days. However, the sheer number of dangerously distressed or suicidal people who are now contacting us has led to an unprecedented change to this home page. If you are severely distressed or suicidal, please remember that you are not alone. We can help and support you in your Dispute, which most of our 'members' have found helps a great deal; but please, please contact The Samaritans if you need them, and see your GP at the earliest opportunity! Please complete the survey below by clicking on just one option - no information other than your answer is collected, and you will retain complete anonymity : http://www.taxcc.org/
Treasury and HMRC discussion document, "Tax Credits:Improving Delivery and Choice".
Treasury and HMRC discussion document, "Tax Credits:Improving Delivery and Choice". (PDF format)
A £2.8 billion farce over tax credits
A £2.8, (£2800,000,000), billion farce over tax credits
When the political obituaries of Gordon Brown are written, the Kafkaesque system of tax credits that he introduced as chancellor will merit a chapter in itself. Today we report that HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is preparing to write off £2.8 billion mistakenly overpaid in tax credits to more than 1.5m people. Worse, evidence obtained by some of those from whom HMRC is demanding repayment reveals a chaotic, error-strewn service, capable of enormous mistakes even when repeatedly provided with accurate information by claimants.
A system supposed to help those on low incomes has turned into a nightmare. A department that specialises in retrospective taxation and harassing the law-abiding cannot keep its own affairs in order. Last year HMRC lost two discs containing bank details and National Insurance numbers of every family in Britain claiming child benefit – 25m individuals. Paul Gray, its chairman, resigned but with a big pay-off and a pension pot of more than £2m.
When the political obituaries of Gordon Brown are written, the Kafkaesque system of tax credits that he introduced as chancellor will merit a chapter in itself. Today we report that HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) is preparing to write off £2.8 billion mistakenly overpaid in tax credits to more than 1.5m people. Worse, evidence obtained by some of those from whom HMRC is demanding repayment reveals a chaotic, error-strewn service, capable of enormous mistakes even when repeatedly provided with accurate information by claimants.
A system supposed to help those on low incomes has turned into a nightmare. A department that specialises in retrospective taxation and harassing the law-abiding cannot keep its own affairs in order. Last year HMRC lost two discs containing bank details and National Insurance numbers of every family in Britain claiming child benefit – 25m individuals. Paul Gray, its chairman, resigned but with a big pay-off and a pension pot of more than £2m.
Bullying tax officials lose £2.8 billion
Bullying tax officials lose £2.8 billion, (£2,800,000,000)
CONFIDENTIAL tapes and internal documents have exposed bullying and bungling in Gordon Brown’s flagship tax-credit scheme that will cost the taxpayer up to £2.8 billion.
More than 1.5m people have been told that they were overpaid tax credits and should now give back the money. Tax officials told them it was their own fault and informed some victims they had no right of appeal.
However, many victims have turned the tables on the tax-man, using evidence from their own case files, obtained under data protection laws, to prove officials’ errors were to blame.
This has revealed government offices in disarray, random errors inserted by computer into claimants’ files, and officials misleading claimants about the right of appeal.
CONFIDENTIAL tapes and internal documents have exposed bullying and bungling in Gordon Brown’s flagship tax-credit scheme that will cost the taxpayer up to £2.8 billion.
More than 1.5m people have been told that they were overpaid tax credits and should now give back the money. Tax officials told them it was their own fault and informed some victims they had no right of appeal.
However, many victims have turned the tables on the tax-man, using evidence from their own case files, obtained under data protection laws, to prove officials’ errors were to blame.
This has revealed government offices in disarray, random errors inserted by computer into claimants’ files, and officials misleading claimants about the right of appeal.
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