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1972vj
Rank; Hector Tax Inspector
United Kingdom
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 Posted - 01/02/2009 : 20:22:22
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Yesterday I received a letter from the tax credit office sent through my MP to say that they are prepared to write off £1100 of my £4500 overpayment as they have said they will take some of the responsibility for the overpayment.
Although this is a small success I am still going to fight for the remaining overpayment to be written off as I don't feel it was my fault. I will let you know their response. Although I don't hold out much hope.
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Alan the Geordie
Da Purple one
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Posted - 02/02/2009 : 00:14:40
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>>Although this is a small success I am still going to fight for the remaining overpayment to be written off as I don't feel it was my fault. I will let you know their response. Although I don't hold out much hope.<<
That's the way !! Keep banging away at them & you may be pleasantly surprised.
When you first started your case, did you ever think you'd get £1100 written off?
Please write to Gordon Brown, Alastair Darling, Jane Kennedy and your MP telling them of your disgust at what you've been put through doe to the incompetence of HMRC and how you now expect to have the remainder written off.
It will cost you a bit of your time, some paper,ink & postage & could add some weight to your argument.
It will also add more to their daily-increasing burden!!
"The best way to take control over a people and control them utterly is to take a little of their freedom at a time, to erode rights by a thousand tiny and almost imperceptible reductions. In this way the people will not see those rights and freedoms being removed until past the point at which these changes cannot be reversed."
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Ali M-W
Da Tech(y ones)
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Posted - 02/02/2009 : 07:08:13
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Originally posted by 1972vj
Yesterday I received a letter from the tax credit office sent through my MP to say that they are prepared to write off £1100 of my £4500 overpayment as they have said they will take some of the responsibility for the overpayment.
Although this is a small success I am still going to fight for the remaining overpayment to be written off as I don't feel it was my fault. I will let you know their response. Although I don't hold out much hope.
Hi 1972vj - that's great news!
You say you "don't hold out much hope", but that all depends on whether you see HMRC's recent admission that the £1100 should be written off as their absolute final word, or as a very positive start.
You might be interested to know that of the £6500 I was supposed to owe, HMRC wrote off £2500-odd after a long-drawn-out battle. This was when they were forced by LITRG, who were helping me then, to admit that they used different salary figures in their calculations to what they had put on my notices. Another chunk followed further down the line after the "illegal recovery" fiasco Jane Kennedy admitted to. It left me with £600-£700 which HMRC insisted I had to pay, but without any coherent explanation.
I think you should persevere. Some people do get full write-offs, but others have bits here, bits there written off until nothing is left.
Ask them for a full explanation of why they are writing off some and not the rest. They will try to blind you with science. Don't let them!
Have a look at www.taxCC.org and see what stage you are at. If you can get a proper explanation from HMRC as to why they are pursuing the rest, that should point you towards your next step.
You've done pretty well here - let that encourage you on to getting the whole "debt" wiped! It CAN be done! 
Trinity: No one has ever done anything like this.
Neo: That's why it's going to work.
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