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  1. I can't answer for the rest of the country, but in the South Wales valleys where I was brought up and was actually nursing on the medical ward at the local hospital in my teens/early twenties, the wards were full of coal miners with debilitating chest/heart problems directly caused by working underground. Just to give you some idea (and I'm not saying this to cause offence or upset - merely to illustrate a point) I had to obtain a sputum specimen from one miner and it was so viscous I had to cut it with a pair of scissors to get it in the sputum pot to send to the lab. These men had worked all their lives, paying tax and NI, in some of the worst conditions imaginable; so when most of the mines were closed and cheap coal was imported from abroad, these men were left with no where to go and would have been too ill to go there anyway due to the chest diseases they were suffering from such as Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) Emphysema, Pneumoconiosis etc.
  2. Honest answer... I don't know! Usually, HMRC will recover monies for up to 3 years; they will then either remit it (if the individual has insufficient income including investments out of which to collect) or will refer it to a DCA leaving you to presumably negotiate repayments with them. It does seem odd that HMRC haven't written to your partner to advise her of this, but nothing surprises me with HMRC these days!
  3. No problem; let us know how you get on
  4. Oh sorry, forgot to say address your request to the Data Protection Officer at the address on the tax credit correspondence you have received.
  5. She should submit a subject access request (SAR) under the Data protection act (DPA) as this will provide her with her personal information. HMRC do not charge a fee for this service which is usually up to a maximum of £10 she should request all and any information held such as; Transcript or CD of telephone calls Electronic information ( household notes and e mails) Copies of written correspondence (letters and memos) HMRC have 40 days to comply with the request
  6. Tax credits will accept what you tell them on the tax credits forms Tax credits will carry out random compliance checks on claims and if there are any anomalies, they will report those to the relevant department (s) for them to carry out their own checks, so it's a chance you take I suppose
  7. Nick Lodge is the executive director of tax credits. Post back here when you get a response
  8. Hi I won't go into the politics of it all but suffice to say the government have got rid of so many staff at HMRC particularly those who were experienced only to replace them with fixed term appointments (who read from a script) and transferred people from other departments who have never dealt with fax credits and this is the result! As you say, this has all had a knock on effect on things like council tax and housing benefit. Make sure you put all that in your letter too as well as telling them that you had to go without food in order to pay bills. Tell Mr Lodge that you expect compensation for the gross inconvenience and maladministration you have suffered.
  9. Well this is just ridiculous! You've been more patient than you need to be quite frankly. Write to; Nick Lodge Director benefits and Credits Tax Credit Office Preston PR1 4AT Mark your letter COMPLAINT and send it by recorded and signed for delivery Give the details as you have posted here. Tell them you expect a response within 14 days from the date of your letter. Post back here if you need more advice
  10. Well at least they replied which is something I suppose! Keep on to them though; if they don't respond by the date they stated then write again. There's an old saying which says, the squeakiest cogs get the most oil! That certainly applies here I think.
  11. You only need to register as self employed if you actually are...use the ESI (employment status indicator) to decide https://esi2calculator.hmrc.gov.uk/esi/app/index.html
  12. Do you know the reason for the underpayment? Might be worth taking a look at COP 26 (code of practice for tax credit overpayments - just google COP 26) to ensure that HMRC have dealt with things correctly.
  13. Gbarbm

    Tax Code

    A pool car is only a pool car if it meets certain conditions; It must be available to and actually used by more than one employee It must not be used exclusively by one employee It must be garaged at or near the business premises or, where that is not possible, at the home of the business owner By using the car outside of work hours, it then becomes available for private use and so becomes a company car
  14. Good! Looks as if things are moving in the right direction at last; remember to keep us informed.
  15. I agree with Martin. Put them to strict proof of the services provided and ask them if they are members of a professional body(such as ACCA) and if so which one. This will leave you the option of reporting their dubious business practices to the professional body. I know times are hard, but even Dick Turpin had the decency to wear a mask when he was robbing you!
  16. They would just try and reconstruct the details based on information supplied by you. HMRC computer records drop off the system after 6 years and if there is a case file, this is weeded every few years
  17. The election referred to in the link is in respect of Capital Gains tax( pre March 1988 election concerning valuation of property) HMRC will only go back beyond 6 years if the year was already under enquiry before it went out of date or if fraud is suspected
  18. He will need to complete 2 self employed pages for each source of income
  19. There is no obligation (as far as HMRC are concerned) for an employer to retain records for more than 6 years after the tax year to which they relate. Essentially, your comment regarding the calculation of additional tax is correct, although if the other income is classed as self employed, then allowable expenses can be offset against the income thereby reducing the amount of tax due
  20. It's not always the case that the employer has submitted the info or the info may appear to be incorrect so HMRC may well then ask for clarification from you
  21. If the company of which you are a director is a Ltd company, then you will be classed as an office holder and therefore an employee I note you state you received no salary or dividends. This may well cause alarm bells to ring with HMRC tax credits and they may wonder why you are receiving no income from the directorship and may wish to satisfy themselves that there is no directors loan account or management fees etc The only way they would be able to confirm or deny thus is by having sight of the company accounts in particular the P&L (profit & loss) and the financial statements
  22. As far as I am aware, penalties for late filing of returns up to 5 April 2011 were fixed at £100 When the return for that particular year in which the penalty was applied is submitted, the penalty would be capped at the level of your liability. So if for example your final tax bill was £70, the penalty would then also revert to £70 If your final tax bill was £100 or more, the penalty would remain at £100 Interest at the official rate (currently 5%) would accrue from the date the liability was due to be paid. However, from 6 April 2011, the fixed automatic penalty of £100 for late filing is due to be paid irrespective of the amount of liability. So if your tax bill was calculated as nil once the tax return was submitted, you would still have to pay the £100
  23. Info re tax credit overpayment and bankruptcy:- TCM0224040 - Payment - overpayments (A-C): Overpayments - bankrupt or sequestrated customers (Info) There is an Action Guide for this subject, select ‘Next Page’ to access it In England, Wales and Northern Ireland, when a person can’t pay their debts, they may be made bankrupt. In Scotland, the same procedure is known as sequestration. Note: The term bankruptcy will be used from this point onwards, but will also refer to sequestration for customers who live in Scotland. A customer may notify you that they’ve been declared bankrupt or you may receive correspondence about this from the Official Receiver or an Insolvency Practitioner (England, Wales or Northern Ireland) or an Accountant in Bankruptcy (Scotland). In all cases, any tax credits overpayment will continue to be recovered until the customer has been discharged from bankruptcy. The customer will then need to provide a copy of the discharge notice before we can remit the outstanding balance of the overpayment. Note: A bankruptcy order normally lasts for one year and a sequestration order for three years. If the customer is a member of a joint household then, if only one customer has been declared bankrupt, the tax credits overpayment will continue to be recovered from the other customer. This is because both members of the household are jointly and severally liable for the overpayment. If a customer notifies you that they’ve been made bankrupt but they also dispute or require an explanation of the overpayment, you must deal with the dispute or explanation first and then return to this guidance. If there’s been a household breakdown on the award or no continuing entitlement, then Debt Management and Banking (DMB) will have been made aware of any customers that have been made bankrupt and will be in direct contact with them. You may receive other correspondence in connection with a customer’s bankruptcy from various bodies - for example, County Courts, Liquidators, and so on. Unless the correspondence you receive is specifically notifying you that a customer has been made bankrupt or has been issued with a discharge notice, you won’t need to take any further action on the correspondence. If a customer states that the reduction in their tax credits payments is causing them hardship, follow the guidance in TCM0216120.
  24. Personally, if it was me, I would ask them why they required that information.
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