MPs' expenses, (An error)... Honestly
Opps, they made an honest mistake in filling in their claims...
Well so have a lot of people trying to get a decent income by having it topped up with Tax Credits.
Those making mistakes in Tax Credits are places in the SAME category of those committing FRAUD.
For M.P.’s the story appears different. They laugh all the way to the bank. Buying everything form light bulbs to large screen flat screen televisions while a lot of income earners paying taxes to get MP’s these goodies are having to payback Tax Credit
Expenses scandal: House of frauds - Times Online UK News; World News; Politics; Science; Environment ... could have quite the effect that this expenses scandal has ... home of Alan Duncan, a millionaire Tory MP who had claimed £7,000 expenses ... << (ed) More than most ever get a year in Tax Credit
http://www.bing.com/search?q=mp+expenses+how+much
http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&hl=en-GB&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLL_en-GBGB355GB355&q=mp+expenses+how+much
http://uk.search.yahoo.com/search?&p=MPs%27+expense
http://www.google.co.uk/search?sourceid=navclient&aq=hts&oq=&hl=en-GB&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1T4GGLL_en-GBGB355GB355&q=MPs%27+expenses
http://www.google.co.uk/search?hl=en&rlz=1T4GGLL_en-GBGB355GB355&q=mp+expenses+scandal&meta=&aq=2&oq=MP+expenses
Piles of Money
Biggest Tax Credits Pay out Ever, and on Time!!!
Friday, 5 February 2010
Monday, 25 January 2010
Tax code errors cost over £1,000 a year.
Tax code errors could cost a 'huge number of people' over £1,000 a year, financial group warns
Workers may have been sent the wrong tax codes following the introduction of a new computer system at HM Revenue & Customs, a tax group warned today.
The Chartered Institute of Taxation believes wrong information may have been sent out to 'huge numbers of people' and warned that unless it was corrected, it could cost them hundreds of pounds.
The group said many people with only one job were being sent two or more tax coding notices with different tax codes.
....
An HMRC spokesman said: 'The new IT system is improving the accuracy of the PAYE so that more people than ever before are correctly taxed.
'Anyone in this position should check their code using the guidance included with the code and on our website, www.hmrc.gov.uk/incometax
Read more
Workers may have been sent the wrong tax codes following the introduction of a new computer system at HM Revenue & Customs, a tax group warned today.
The Chartered Institute of Taxation believes wrong information may have been sent out to 'huge numbers of people' and warned that unless it was corrected, it could cost them hundreds of pounds.
The group said many people with only one job were being sent two or more tax coding notices with different tax codes.
....
An HMRC spokesman said: 'The new IT system is improving the accuracy of the PAYE so that more people than ever before are correctly taxed.
'Anyone in this position should check their code using the guidance included with the code and on our website, www.hmrc.gov.uk/incometax
Read more
Tuesday, 19 January 2010
Reform the Tax Credit system
Pocket Guide to Liberal Democrat Policies 2009, (Subject to possible change)
Reform the Tax Credit system – Low income families should be able to sleep easy at night knowing that the payment they receive is right and won’t be clawed back.
We will make payments fixed for 6 months (unless a family experiences a large and unexpected drop in income) so families are not constantly paying tax credits
back.
We will also reduce the number of people eligible for Tax Credits who are on higher incomes and use the resulting savings to increase education spending for the most deprived children.
Reform the Tax Credit system – Low income families should be able to sleep easy at night knowing that the payment they receive is right and won’t be clawed back.
We will make payments fixed for 6 months (unless a family experiences a large and unexpected drop in income) so families are not constantly paying tax credits
back.
We will also reduce the number of people eligible for Tax Credits who are on higher incomes and use the resulting savings to increase education spending for the most deprived children.
Friday, 15 January 2010
Taxman ignored 44 million calls
Taxman ignored 44 million calls
HM Revenue and Customs failed to answer about 44 million calls last year, the Whitehall spending watchdog has disclosed.
The National Audit Office (NAO) described the performance of HMRC's 31 customer "contact centres" during the course of 2008-09 as "unacceptable".
HM Revenue and Customs failed to answer about 44 million calls last year, the Whitehall spending watchdog has disclosed.
The National Audit Office (NAO) described the performance of HMRC's 31 customer "contact centres" during the course of 2008-09 as "unacceptable".
Despite employing the equivalent of 10,500 full-time staff at the centres at a cost of £233 million, HMRC still failed to pick up 43% of the 103 million calls it received during the year.
During the busiest periods - such as the tax credit renewals peak in July - just one in three calls (33%) was actually answered.
Callers who did get through had to wait an average two minutes for a reply - or almost four minutes if they were ringing at peak times.
That contrasted with best practice in the private sector where the target is for 90% of all calls to be picked up within 10 seconds.
Although the latest figures for the first half of 2009-10 have shown some improvement by HMRC, the NAO said that more than one in four calls - 27% - were still not getting a reply.
In the private sector, the benchmark is that no more than 10% of calls should go unanswered.
Monday, 19 October 2009
Benefits Helpline
Benefits Helpline.
Please note the editor does no know if any charges are expected for support using this service. Check for any charges first.
We can give totally impartial advice as The Benefits Helpline is not affiliated with any government department/services
All benefits problems solved with fast, accurate, simple, expert advice. Are you in a high end job? Found you are just too busy to realise that you are missing unclaimed benefits?
The Benefits Helpline can advise you on what benefits you can claim.
As the UK's dedicated benefits support service, the Benefits Helpline specialises in advising and assisting people who are classed as 'high earners'. The Benefits Helpline will help you unveil any unclaimed and unpaid benefits that are currently not known by you.
Get help with any benefit related query: -
How to claim benefits.
Information on benefits.
Entitle to benefits.
Benefits forms made simple.
Comprehensive benefit advice.
Benefits and tax credits.
The Benefits Helpline has been setup to deal with UK benefit queries.
Trained advisors are on hand to deal with anything from your general enquires and specialist problems, to emergencies.
The Benefits Helpline is tailored to support all benefit related enquiries. With trained benefits advisors on call, you will speak to a straightforward, articulate and friendly telephone support agent.
The trained benefits advisors are on hand to ensure that that your benefits problems will be dealt with absolute professionalism and efficiency.
There will be no jargon, just competent, accurate, straight forward advice tailored to fit your needs.
As the UK's dedicated benefit support service, you are safe in the knowledge that the Benefits Helpline offers you a comprehensive and accurate solution, for all of your benefits related enquiries.
Benefits Helpline
Please note the editor does no know if any charges are expected for support using this service. Check for any charges first.
We can give totally impartial advice as The Benefits Helpline is not affiliated with any government department/services
All benefits problems solved with fast, accurate, simple, expert advice. Are you in a high end job? Found you are just too busy to realise that you are missing unclaimed benefits?
The Benefits Helpline can advise you on what benefits you can claim.
As the UK's dedicated benefits support service, the Benefits Helpline specialises in advising and assisting people who are classed as 'high earners'. The Benefits Helpline will help you unveil any unclaimed and unpaid benefits that are currently not known by you.
Get help with any benefit related query: -
How to claim benefits.
Information on benefits.
Entitle to benefits.
Benefits forms made simple.
Comprehensive benefit advice.
Benefits and tax credits.
The Benefits Helpline has been setup to deal with UK benefit queries.
Trained advisors are on hand to deal with anything from your general enquires and specialist problems, to emergencies.
The Benefits Helpline is tailored to support all benefit related enquiries. With trained benefits advisors on call, you will speak to a straightforward, articulate and friendly telephone support agent.
The trained benefits advisors are on hand to ensure that that your benefits problems will be dealt with absolute professionalism and efficiency.
There will be no jargon, just competent, accurate, straight forward advice tailored to fit your needs.
As the UK's dedicated benefit support service, you are safe in the knowledge that the Benefits Helpline offers you a comprehensive and accurate solution, for all of your benefits related enquiries.
Benefits Helpline
Friday, 16 October 2009
Childcare Warning to Parents'.
Childcare Warning to Parents'.
Under recent changes to the law in England some providers of childcare who were approved for tax credits under the old rules must now meet new registration requirements.
Parents should now check whether their providers are still registered under the new rules. If they continue to claim tax credits on childcare costs paid to unregistered providers, they could be left with large overpayments and possibly even penalties.
Low Income Tax reform Group.
Under recent changes to the law in England some providers of childcare who were approved for tax credits under the old rules must now meet new registration requirements.
Parents should now check whether their providers are still registered under the new rules. If they continue to claim tax credits on childcare costs paid to unregistered providers, they could be left with large overpayments and possibly even penalties.
Low Income Tax reform Group.
Tax Credits Disputes - A Ray of Hope
Tax credits disputes - a ray of hope (25-09-2009)
Over the last few years, unacceptable delays, poorly written responses, wrong explanations and sometimes no reply at all have been common experiences for users of the tax credit dispute process.
We have been at the forefront of calling for change. We therefore welcome HMRC’s decision to set up a new team to deal with correspondence from organisations offering free advice to claimants.
Low Incomes Tax Reform Group.
Over the last few years, unacceptable delays, poorly written responses, wrong explanations and sometimes no reply at all have been common experiences for users of the tax credit dispute process.
We have been at the forefront of calling for change. We therefore welcome HMRC’s decision to set up a new team to deal with correspondence from organisations offering free advice to claimants.
Low Incomes Tax Reform Group.
Help For Working Tax Credit Claimants in the Recession
Help for working tax credit claimants in the recession (16-09-2009)
When people lose their jobs or have their hours reduced there are tax credit rules which mean that valuable tax credit payments are not withdrawn immediately.
From August this year these rules have been amended to make them apply to more people.
Low Incomes Tax reform Group.
When people lose their jobs or have their hours reduced there are tax credit rules which mean that valuable tax credit payments are not withdrawn immediately.
From August this year these rules have been amended to make them apply to more people.
Low Incomes Tax reform Group.
'Help With Tax Credit Overpayments
Help with tax credit overpayments(18-09-2009)
A new guide written for the man or woman in the street aimed at enabling them to challenge tax credit overpayments is published today.
LITRG, (Low Incomes Tax Refom Group), has written the guide to help claimants through the complexities of fighting a tax credits overpayment decision and to enable them to decide how to fight and how to find extra help.
A new guide written for the man or woman in the street aimed at enabling them to challenge tax credit overpayments is published today.
LITRG, (Low Incomes Tax Refom Group), has written the guide to help claimants through the complexities of fighting a tax credits overpayment decision and to enable them to decide how to fight and how to find extra help.
Thursday, 10 September 2009
Call for Tax Credit overpayments over 4 years old to be written-off
Citizens Advice are starting a national campaign for all Tax Credit overpayments over 4 years old to be written-off. Today, Tax Credit Casualties have issued the Media Release shown below.
What can you do to help? Just forward this media release to your local newspapers - these are the papers that we don't have on our list. The more publicity we can generate, the more chance we have of succeeding. This is YOUR campaign, and it's important that everyone join in if we are going to be successful.
Please also send a copy to your MP - we aren't allowed to 'spam' them, but you, as their constituents, can make them aware of things! Let's - every one of us - do what we can to get this vile system changed!Thanks.Tax Credit Casualties.
Tax Credit Casualties Support Citizens Advice
Tax Credit Debt Write-Off' Campaign Sign Here, Sign Now!!!
The latest Tax Credit statistics, quietly released by HMRC, show a shock increase of overpayment bills for poverty stricken families. The official figures for 2007/08 show that over £940 million will be clawed back from almost 1.34 million of the UK's poorest families, plunging them even deeper below the poverty line.
One in five Tax Credit claims are now overpaid each year, leaving struggling families in dispair about how they are going to survive when HMRC claw back the money. Once again, a measure that was supposed to bring millions of children out of poverty is having exactly the opposite effect, as the very poorest families struggle to repay their Government imposed debt.
Citizens Advice is calling for old tax credit debts, dating back more than four years, to be written-off. It is taking part in a national campaign to ask the Government to wipe the slate clean, reduce hardship for families on low incomes and restore confidence in the system.
The award-winning voluntary organization Tax Credit Casualties (TCC) have campaigned for an overpayment amnesty since 2005, and welcomes the call by Citizens Advice for all tax credit overpayment bills, served to honest claimants during 2003-05, to be written-off.
Despite the good intentions behind the Tax Credit system, TCC are deeply concerned about the hardship and distress caused by the recovery of Tax Credits year on year since the scheme began in 2003, with claimant poverty compounded by the recession. Non-fraudulent overpayments must be written off.
It damages public confidence in our leaders when MPs defend excessive expenses, “home-flips” and mortgage irregularities as 'accidents' whilst ordinary, hardworking citizens suffer grave injustices in the “guilty until proven innocent” culture the Treasury adopts towards overpayment victims. Without an Amnesty, costly overpayment disputes will continue to swamp HM Revenue and Customs indefinitely. Enforced recovery is neither just nor economical.
The public has lost confidence in tax credits, and trust must be restored. Recent reports suggest that a massive £4.24 billion available to Tax Credit claimants is not collected each year – more than enough to fund a full write-off. Costs saved in pursuing the innocently indebted can be redirected to system overhaul. A reliable system will restore public confidence far better than costly campaigns to promote take-up.
HMRC has seen huge data losses, radical structural reorganization, and a huge backlog of unopened post and complaints. Chasing the poorest families to recover non-fraudulent overpayments only detracts from urgent work in creating a safer, fairer system.
Parliamentary Ombudsman Ann Abraham recommended a write-off all overpayments resulting from official errors, something the Government has continually ignored.
This call has been backed by the Child Poverty Action Group, Royal College of Nursing, Low Incomes Tax Reform Group and cross-party MPs. UNISON has supported Motion 100 urging a Government amnesty on the claw back of overpaid Tax Credits. The two-way link between poverty and mental health cannot be ignored, with poverty and mental distress bringing huge social and welfare costs.
Please support Citizens Advice and Tax Credit Casualties in this campaign for a write off of non-fradulent overpayments. The poorest families in the UK need this Amnesty.
Urgently.
********************* End of Media Release **************************
What can you do to help? Just forward this media release to your local newspapers - these are the papers that we don't have on our list. The more publicity we can generate, the more chance we have of succeeding. This is YOUR campaign, and it's important that everyone join in if we are going to be successful.
Please also send a copy to your MP - we aren't allowed to 'spam' them, but you, as their constituents, can make them aware of things! Let's - every one of us - do what we can to get this vile system changed!Thanks.Tax Credit Casualties.
Tax Credit Casualties Support Citizens Advice
Tax Credit Debt Write-Off' Campaign Sign Here, Sign Now!!!
The latest Tax Credit statistics, quietly released by HMRC, show a shock increase of overpayment bills for poverty stricken families. The official figures for 2007/08 show that over £940 million will be clawed back from almost 1.34 million of the UK's poorest families, plunging them even deeper below the poverty line.
One in five Tax Credit claims are now overpaid each year, leaving struggling families in dispair about how they are going to survive when HMRC claw back the money. Once again, a measure that was supposed to bring millions of children out of poverty is having exactly the opposite effect, as the very poorest families struggle to repay their Government imposed debt.
Citizens Advice is calling for old tax credit debts, dating back more than four years, to be written-off. It is taking part in a national campaign to ask the Government to wipe the slate clean, reduce hardship for families on low incomes and restore confidence in the system.
The award-winning voluntary organization Tax Credit Casualties (TCC) have campaigned for an overpayment amnesty since 2005, and welcomes the call by Citizens Advice for all tax credit overpayment bills, served to honest claimants during 2003-05, to be written-off.
Despite the good intentions behind the Tax Credit system, TCC are deeply concerned about the hardship and distress caused by the recovery of Tax Credits year on year since the scheme began in 2003, with claimant poverty compounded by the recession. Non-fraudulent overpayments must be written off.
It damages public confidence in our leaders when MPs defend excessive expenses, “home-flips” and mortgage irregularities as 'accidents' whilst ordinary, hardworking citizens suffer grave injustices in the “guilty until proven innocent” culture the Treasury adopts towards overpayment victims. Without an Amnesty, costly overpayment disputes will continue to swamp HM Revenue and Customs indefinitely. Enforced recovery is neither just nor economical.
The public has lost confidence in tax credits, and trust must be restored. Recent reports suggest that a massive £4.24 billion available to Tax Credit claimants is not collected each year – more than enough to fund a full write-off. Costs saved in pursuing the innocently indebted can be redirected to system overhaul. A reliable system will restore public confidence far better than costly campaigns to promote take-up.
HMRC has seen huge data losses, radical structural reorganization, and a huge backlog of unopened post and complaints. Chasing the poorest families to recover non-fraudulent overpayments only detracts from urgent work in creating a safer, fairer system.
Parliamentary Ombudsman Ann Abraham recommended a write-off all overpayments resulting from official errors, something the Government has continually ignored.
This call has been backed by the Child Poverty Action Group, Royal College of Nursing, Low Incomes Tax Reform Group and cross-party MPs. UNISON has supported Motion 100 urging a Government amnesty on the claw back of overpaid Tax Credits. The two-way link between poverty and mental health cannot be ignored, with poverty and mental distress bringing huge social and welfare costs.
Please support Citizens Advice and Tax Credit Casualties in this campaign for a write off of non-fradulent overpayments. The poorest families in the UK need this Amnesty.
Urgently.
********************* End of Media Release **************************
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