Legal Requirement To Complete Tax Credit Form?

southerndave

My wife and I are no longer entitled to Tax Credits, a benefit we where almost forced into from the start. We knew this, so wrote to them with our assessment and said we didn't want to claim. We have paid back by cheque the overpayment from previous years. We asked them not to contact us again.

In a snotty reply, we have been told that the claim must run for this year as we filled in the assessment, even thought the entitlement is zero. We have also been told that we will have to fill in another form next year, even though we don't want to continue. We have been told it is a 'legal requirement' and forms will be sent out in April. Is this true?

If we simply bin the forms or send them back blank and have already told them we do not wish to claim, what on earth is the legal requirement to complete a form? What would be the 'punishment' for transgressing this bureaucracy? And surely if using their argument that is is "too late to cancel this year's claim" as it has already started, wouldn't completing another form simply start another claim for next year?!?

:mad:

Orville

I always thought that if you never sent in your new assessment form but the cut off date your claim would be stopped and not renewed. I maybe wrong though.