Compensation for tax credit victims

Compensation for tax credit victims

The Inland Revenue has decided not to bring in a special scheme to compensate people who have lost out because of the problematic introduction of the new tax credits.

They'll have to join everyone else with a tax complaint and follow the Revenue's official complaints procedure.

That might be a tall order because the tax office received 37,000 complaints last year on general tax matters alone.

At present the Revenue is making no extra provision to deal with the increase of complaints from tax credit cases.

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You can also claim for loss of earnings for the time you've spent on sorting out your benefit on the phone and visiting the tax office.

Tax Credit Compensation
Postage
Phone calls
Travel
Fees
Financial charges

The inland revenue will also compensate for cases of worry and distress. The amounts paid out in these instances can vary from £25 to £500.

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If you get no joy then you can try the director of the tax office, failing that, there's an adjudicator, and as a last resort there's the parliamentary ombudsman

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