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caravan1962
Rank; Hector Tax Inspector
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 Posted - 09/12/2008 : 00:00:58
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hello i am a 46 year old widow with one child now aged 21, i was advised to claim tax credits when it first started 2002, i dont know what has happened but i owe them £4016.44 for the years 2003-2006. During 2001 i only worked for 6 months of the year as i had cancer when i returned to work i didnt make enough money to pay tax and i think they have based my original assement on this income. Each year i applied i always gave my details of my income from my p60 i work in a sales team where my basic is low £13000 but work on commission also, with me suffering from ill health some months i dont get commission if off work... sorry for rambling my average income is around £21000 incuding commision. I have not received any payments for several years from tax credits. In the early days of the office setting up i found it very hard to get through to them often waiting in queues for over 1 hour i always pointed out that they had my inital salary in correct and they said it would right its self . However now i am faced with a notice of legal proceedings the first i heard about this recovery was in may 08 when i phoned into the tax office and asked for an explaination and also wrote which i received a reply advising they were looking into dated july 2008, nothing heard since until this warning for payment. i am worried sick as i dont have the funds to pay this overpayment, what do i do ? please help me many thanks
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Ali M-W
Da Tech(y ones)
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Posted - 09/12/2008 : 07:34:54
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Hiya Caravan1962 - your answers lie here: http://www.taxcc.org/Dispute_1st_things_1st.html
You say 'i am worried sick as i dont have the funds to pay this overpayment, what do i do ?' The answer is, you fight it all the way until you win. You only ever did as you thought right. You gave them the correct information, and they ended up overpaying you. They now want £4016.44 which you can't afford to repay. If you haven't heard anything from them since July 2008, then the backlog of work is worse than we have previously thought, and they cannot act without telling you, so as long as you respond to any action on their part (we will help you with that here), and don't take chances on ignoring any move they may make in the future, you will be okay. They main thing is living with the uncertainty of dreadfully slow replies. If you read the website and look around these threads, you'll see how people play it out differently: some will blast off letter after letter and dispute and complain at everything HMRC dos, even before they respond - complaining about letter delays, insisting on quick answers, and that can work well; yet others can also do well just responding when HMRC do. As a campaign we need a mixture of those actively complaining and holding HMRC to account, and those happy to go for the long haul and let HMRC just get snarled under with work of their own until such time as they and the government see sense and own up that recovery costs more than write-off, and just let innocent claimants off the hook. Anyway, you may need to live with things taking a long time as HMRC cannot be trusted to make a cup of tea.
Get HMRC to explain exactly where things went wrong. And send off for your data using a SARN request. Write to HMRC saying you have joined the Tax Credit Casualties and need time and all your information - as well as their explanations - to make your case for write-off. Insist that they cannot pursue you until the dispute is concluded through all its stages. Tell them you did nothing wrong and will not be held responsible for their mistakes; that you are getting respresentation to prove your complete compliance, honesty and entrapment by their flawed system. And write to your MP and let them know that you have your MP's support. You can even threaten to go to the Press with details of the misery they have caused you (whether you follow thios through or not is up to you).
Good luck. Have a good look at the site - www.taxCC.org - and post here whenever you need further support. Take care and win.
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