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Thousands sent letters by HMRC accusing them of being tax cheats
Ethel_Fred
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You didn't think they were going after the rich cheats did you?
Thousands of people on low incomes are being sent letters by an American outsourcing company accusing them of cheating on their tax credits and warning them that they may have their benefits stopped.
Concentrix, part of a multi-billion pound US business services company, has been accused of going on a vast “fishing expedition” as part of a controversial contract with HM Revenue and Customs to outsource its fraud and error detection...
...Many said they believed the letters to be hoaxes as they asked for personal financial information such as bank and mortgage statements to be sent to the company within 30 days.
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If you only knew the amount of money HMRC loses in incorrect tax credit claims and false claims.
I used to laugh when I worked in tax credits investigation and people were given deals of paying back tax credits at a £1 a week in some cases when they owed thousands and some people it would take hundreds of years to pay it back.
Tax Credits is and always will be a financial disaster and Gordon Brown should be made to account for the mess of it.
Gordon Brown when he invented tax credits didn't take into account people changed jobs and partners he actually didn't believe some men and women change their partners like their pants and it is these people who get into a mess with tax credits because they have so many change in circumstances in a year their tax credits are never right.
I think it's hilarious, in a sick sort of way. The very people (low-paid workers) who cheered on the abuse of those wholly reliant on welfare, are now to be on the receiving end of the self-same ideology.
And this is just the beginning...
Hail our glorious fascist overlords, five more years!
Last year they closed the enquiry centres and asked charities and CAB to take some of it and paid them.
Gordon Brown sold HMRC estates to the tax dodgers Mapeley based in an offshore country with no tax - anyone care to mention that when talking about tax dodging
If the public stopped seeing civil servants as a joke and realised what was happened there wouldn't be private companies now.
So it's a deliberate act to make the whole process akin to abuse, even sadism. Making people jump through hoops and engage in wholly pointless activities if they wish to continue receiving the money.
Tax Credits are just another benefit.
Of course the NHS is next.
I have seen tax credits right from the beginning when people were supergluing their hands to tax offices desks, to seeing people trying to defraud them by all claiming to live in the same address to seeing people in tears when told they have to pay it all back to people screaming about not being able to get them and people claiming them and taking the money off abroad.
The whole system is and was a total mess and HMRC pays more trying to sort out the overpayments and fraud than it does giving out the money, in effect tax credits actually cost more for the taxpayer because of the amount of fraud.
When TC came in we were eligible, they cocked it up so badly, we stopped claiming from then on, despite still being eligible, we just shredded the letters and carried on as before it was introduced. (we repayed their cock-up over the next two years). Just glad when the quadruple letters finally stopped.
Indeed, and thank you to steveh31 for making me laugh like a drain. Of course there may be a few people in the position described I don't deny that, but to make such sweeping statements is absurd.
Bring back the workhouses! Give the Tories another five years and that is where we will be. As soon as the full horrors are realised they will attempt to blame someone else, anyone else except themselves. Of course they are the most socially responsible political party around - you do realise that?
Hurrah we are saved
Although we might have a bit of a problem sourcing all the oakum.
By 2020 the country would be crying out for a socialist government. Nationalising the utilities and everything else, maybe without reimbursement to the owners.
It's the usual way of things.
The problems started when Brown merged Inland Revenue and HM Customs.