Help needed - have reached crisis point!!
I have a long standing dispute with HMRC re; overpayment of working tax credit and child tax credit - in excess of £11,000.
HMRC say this dates back too 2003-2004. I am a single parent of 2 girls (1 at university and 1 at college). I am working as a teacher and I have worked for the same Local Authority since 2002, when I graduated. In the early days my tax credits were paid through my employer.
My personal circs have not changed in all this time. The only things that have changed are that I stopped paying childcare as my girls got older and 1 year I worked part time due to ill health. All these changes were reported to HMRC promptly. When my daughter went to University I reported this.
Normally, (although not for the last few years), teachers get a pay increase in September and I promptly reported this as well each year.
The situation now is;
I have exhausted the CAB and Welfare Rights system and I have asked for the help of my MP and an accountant. I am due to appear in Court again on 1/3/13 and my MP has been unable to secure an adjournment for me.
HMRC are messing my accountant around and will not converse with him. I have now filled in 3 authorisation forms for him to deal with it on my behalf.
My accountant seems to think that when I have reported my pay increase in September that HMRC have back dated this to the previous April. Does anyone know if this is one of the flaws of the system?
Also, if I get a CCJ against me it will affect my career. I am currently completing forms to apply for new jobs and it will be asked if I have CCJ's against me. I am also starting training to be a foster carer and it will put this in jeopardy.
The Judge at Court reduced me to tears last time I went to Court. She wouldn't allow me to speak and treated me like a criminal. There doesn't seem to be any recognition that HMRC are incapable of operating a system that is fair.
Please give me some advice. I can't believe the stress I have been put under for the last year, with bailiffs at my door and the like. I am under the hospital for depression and I take a high dose of anti-depressants. I feel really desperate now.
I have a long standing dispute with HMRC re; overpayment of working tax credit and child tax credit - in excess of £11,000.
HMRC say this dates back too 2003-2004. I am a single parent of 2 girls (1 at university and 1 at college). I am working as a teacher and I have worked for the same Local Authority since 2002, when I graduated. In the early days my tax credits were paid through my employer.
My personal circs have not changed in all this time. The only things that have changed are that I stopped paying childcare as my girls got older and 1 year I worked part time due to ill health. All these changes were reported to HMRC promptly. When my daughter went to University I reported this.
Normally, (although not for the last few years), teachers get a pay increase in September and I promptly reported this as well each year.
The situation now is;
I have exhausted the CAB and Welfare Rights system and I have asked for the help of my MP and an accountant. I am due to appear in Court again on 1/3/13 and my MP has been unable to secure an adjournment for me.
HMRC are messing my accountant around and will not converse with him. I have now filled in 3 authorisation forms for him to deal with it on my behalf.
My accountant seems to think that when I have reported my pay increase in September that HMRC have back dated this to the previous April. Does anyone know if this is one of the flaws of the system?
Also, if I get a CCJ against me it will affect my career. I am currently completing forms to apply for new jobs and it will be asked if I have CCJ's against me. I am also starting training to be a foster carer and it will put this in jeopardy.
The Judge at Court reduced me to tears last time I went to Court. She wouldn't allow me to speak and treated me like a criminal. There doesn't seem to be any recognition that HMRC are incapable of operating a system that is fair.
Please give me some advice. I can't believe the stress I have been put under for the last year, with bailiffs at my door and the like. I am under the hospital for depression and I take a high dose of anti-depressants. I feel really desperate now.
