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 would 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.

I previously submitted a request that was incorrectly rejected on the basis that it asked for personally identifiable information. I have completed a check with "whatdotheyknow.com" and they have confirmed that this was not a valid reason to reject the request.

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.

I'd also like further information on any internal review conducted on HMRC's own actions, please supply a redacted (if necessary) version of any internal reports and communications culminating in the decision to spend £6million compensating the customers of Tax Credits Limited.

Please also state the name and job title of the ultimate decision maker - ie the HMRC manager who signed off the payment of £6million.

As I have previously stated the issue regarding clarity here is what information is HMRC in possession of that determines any liability to pay £6million to support a business that it has perviously claimed was acting illegally.

Yours faithfully,

AWM

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'.

The reason for rejection is completely bogus. HMRC have already identified the person in press releases. If identifying the person was a problem they should not have made these press releases. Furthermore HMRC's press releases go further than identify the person or company they actually claim the directors of this company committed a crime which completely defeats the object of the clause HMRC is relying on for not disclosing information about an individual.

In any event I am not asking about information about the individual, I am clearly asking for information about the motivation behind the actions taken to pay our £6.5 million of taxpayer funds when there no obvious obligation to do so unless it is under the advice of HMRC's lawyers.

It is this information that I have an entirely legitimate expectation to receive. I'm happy for HMRC to make the disclosure fully redacting any information that identifies any parties.

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