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Proving you HAVEN'T lived somewhere for benefit purposes!
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...if it walks like a duck, and quacks like a duck then .......0
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I don't know how the HMRC look at cases but if I was looking at it, there's no way I'd believe he wasn't living there.
Rent - cash only with no tenancy agreement
Council Tax - included with the unverifiable rent
Water / Electric / Gas - included with the unverifiable rent
Bank statements / Credit Cards - sent to the wifes address
Driving License information - sent to the wifes address
The staff member of HMRC looking at the evidence cannot come to any conclusion other than he was living with the wife. You've got to look at what's reasonable, and if you'd separated from a partner, why would you continue to have your personal information to still be sent to the property.
As others have said, its impossible not to have a paper trail in this day and age, and when I see HMRC open an investigation you wouldn't believe the amount of access to public and private information they have access to. If your friend has been living there, he needs to own up first so it can be taken into account.I work as a Housing Benefit assessor, any advice given is for general information purposes only. It is not, and should not be construed as, financial or other professional advice.0 -
lighting_up_the_chalice wrote: »Well, it's easy then. His landlords accounts and tax returns should be sufficient.
Rent is always paid in cash and no receipt has ever been offered so doubt they would have kept accounts on that....thanks anyway.0 -
Good luck to them fighting this one then.0
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hum_lovely wrote: »Rent is always paid in cash and no receipt has ever been offered so doubt they would have kept accounts on that....thanks anyway.
Hmmm... Looks like his "landlord" may be up shlt creek too!0 -
When he left 8 years ago did his wife not apply for a reduction of her council tax, presuming she was the only adult living there at the time?0
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Did he live at the same place for the full 8 years? Sounds like a man not keen on change, amazing he managed to separate at all!0
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Mobile phone contract? No, don't tell me, he's on PAYG right?
I haven't bogged off yet, and I ain't no babe
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Bogof_Babe wrote: »Mobile phone contract? No, don't tell me, he's on PAYG right?
That was my next question....but i was thinking more on the lines of the answer being NO REGISTERED AT THE OLD ADDRESS because he is a man!0
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