Tax Credits Limited
Dear HM Revenue and Customs,
I understand HMRC agreed to pay the customers of Tax Credits Limtied £6million in settlement of fees.
It's highly irregular for HMRC to cover this sort of cost as it woudl usually be covered by the professional indemnity insurance of the tax agent after a protracted legal dispute.
I also know that HMRC wasn't dealing with assignements correctly as per it's own guidelines.
I'd like to know if this settlement came as a result of a legal challenge to HMRC.
I would also like to know the details of any internal assessment the HMRC's legal department carried out on their liability here.
If no such assessment was carried out I'd like to know why as this was a lot of taxpayer's money to spend supporting a business where the directors and owners could possibly have been legally cuplable.
Yours faithfully,
AWM
Our ref: FOI2023/13779
Dear Anthony Mills,
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HMRC Freedom of Information Team
Dear Anthony Mills,
Please find attached our response to your information request.
Yours sincerely,
HMRC Freedom of Information Team
Dear HM Revenue and Customs,
Please pass this on to the person who conducts Freedom of Information reviews.
I am writing to request an internal review of HM Revenue and Customs's handling of my FOI request 'Tax Credits Limited'.
HMRC has refused the request as it identifies a corporate body, namely "Tax Credits Ltd". HMRC has already identified the body in it's press releases however.
In any event the request was not about the tax affairs of the body, it was about HMRC's actions and why the chose to pay £6million to bail out a Tax Refund company when taxpayers could have pursued the company themselves for correspondence.
A full history of my FOI request and all correspondence is available on the Internet at this address: https://www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/t...
Yours faithfully,
Anthony Mills
Our ref: IR2023/56823
Dear Anthony Mills,
Thank you for your email of 3 August.
Unfortunately, we are unable to accept your request for an internal review
as you submitted it outside of the 40 working days window. Our original
response 29 March 2023 explained how any review request had to be made
within a specific timeframe.
Yours sincerely
HMRC Information Rights Unit
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