Parents-Does The Taxman Owe You £1,500? (merged)

surroundedbychaos

:hello:I also sent off my claim and then sat and suddenly thought oh... maybe should've checked it out a bit more _pale_ (normally would and have NO idea why I didnt) ...Although I did manage to get in touch with 'the entitlements agency' via the freephone number. I was rudely told that claims could take 4 - 5 months and I wouldn't receive a confirmation letter!
Beginning to wonder if the whole thing is worth it :huh:
Hope this helps :undecided

Voyager2002

Best advice: 1. make a claim directly with HMRC and any other government agency that might help you; 2. write to this company stating clearly that you do not want them to represent you, you withdraw any authority you may have unwittingly given them to act on your behalf, and you will not be paying any kind of fee to them.

brightonman123

best go direct to relevant govt. department (www.direct.gov.uk is a good starting place to look)..

get the proper info, for FREE.

johnmil7

MissTW wrote: »

Here's the link to get the form for free offthe HMRC website, I've filled out mine and am posting it tomorrow.
http://search2.hmrc.gov.uk/kbroker/hmrc/forms/viewform.jsp?formId=3282

Where do I send the completed claim forms back to? I cant see anywhere on the PDF document to say the return address

Biggles

johnmil7 wrote: »

Where do I send the completed claim forms back to? I cant see anywhere on the PDF document to say the return address

"Please return this form to your local Inland Revenue (= HMRC) office"

MissTW

I found the address of my local HMRC office on the HMRC website.

RevMom

Hi
I found out about this by accident searching for something else on the net, I rang my tax office and they said just send in a letter with NI number and childs details. They also said it might take a while (up to 12weeks!!!) for a response because of the 31st Oct deadline for tax returns. My tax office today are still only dealing with post from 24th October ... Be aware that you only have until the end of this tax year to claim this as you only get 6 years (there was one available for the year before apparantly but we're too late for that now.
Best thing to do is ring your current tax office and ask them and get your letter in asap.
Good luck.

robnye

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if you have more than one child at that point in time, are you entitled to more?

i have 3 dd's, who where all under 16 in 2002-03
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ignore - ive just printed the form and it says one claim no matter how many kids you had at that time

checked old tax code notifications, for once the government was spot - i dont have to claim all was done automatically at the time

Bismarck

This one hit my inbasket today (taxcredits.org.uk) from a well-wisher....had never heard of the rebate they were talking about but the site looked genuine....for a couple of seconds...til I saw the links on the side about writing off 75% of my debt and ppi reclaiming....hmmmm.....not very government sounding after all.

Will look into the rebate through HMRC now....

Glad the matter was raised....

Bismarck

from HMRC.....


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