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In the UK the tax authorities have been accused of being inefficient in the administration of new children's tax credits, and this has hurt many lower income tax payers. This category covers the issue of the introduction and administration of family tax credits.

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• BBC NEWS | Business | Middle classes lose out

  http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3310949.stm
  Middle income families will lose out from plans to freeze elements of the tax credits.

• Childcare: penalty for false claim

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/2870191/Childcare-penalty-for-false-claim.html
  About 100,000 childminders are being warned off supporting false tax credit claims after the Inland Revenue prosecuted four people over a total tax loss of more than £24,000.

• Errors force 'unreasonable' cuts

  http://iccheshireonline.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/ellesmereportpioneer/content_objectid=13767885_method=full_siteid=50020_headline=-Errors-force--unreasonable--cuts-name_page.html
  The Inland Revenue is clawing back cash from Ellesmere Port families whose child or work tax credits it says it's overpaid.

• Revenue recruits 500 to avoid new tax credit fiasco

  http://www.theguardian.com/business/2003/dec/31/money.socialexclusion
  The Inland Revenue will open a new call centre in Newcastle in the spring, employing more than 500 staff as it seeks to avoid a repeat of the tax credit fiasco that hit millions of people.

• Taxman's Books in Sorry State

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/2869452/Taxmans-books-in-sorry-state.html
  Story of Inland Revenue's accounts being in disarray.

• Telegraph - Low-paid 'caught in payback trap'

  http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1450117/Low-paid-caught-in-payback-trap.html
  Thousands of families have had benefits reduced by up to a third because the Inland Revenue paid them too much, prompting Opposition MPs to accuse the Government of causing unnecessary distress to the low-paid.

 

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