i waNt to stOP claiming WTC!

confused!_13

THEY WONT LET ME!
I havent fille din my annual declaration as of yet and was wondering if i didnt fill this in and kept all this years TC payment £42 a month April May and June in the bank surely they will just estimate last years claim on my P60 figures and then they willa sk for the payments for thsi year back?

Or is this not correct!

bergy2

Not sure i follow this but last years income determines completely this years award.

Have you stopped work??

Gaz83

You cannot ask to stop receiving WTC - HMRC are unable by law to stop a Tax Credits Claim.

confused!_13

No, i havent stopped work - i am just fed up of getting adustments amendments overpayments etc. i only get a token amount and i am fed up to the back teeth of filling in paperwork, calling them when my income changes, i am on commission so some months my wages can vary by up to £1300!!

Can i tell them i expect to earn over the threshold - i wont at all, but i do not want them any more- i dont need them, and i am so fed up with queueing to speak to them every month!

There MUST be a way that i can stop getting them!!

Plus, i havent 'claimed' for this year, i have the forms at home to fill in with P60 info etc. i will gladly pay them back from april onwards etc. whatever it takes. It is causing me stress having to check adn call them all the time, they say not to worry blah blah but they told me that 3 years ago and i have just got an over payment notice for £3000

TheWaltons_3

Am I right in saying that if you don't fill in the Annual Declaration.. they will stop anyway?

bergy2

Tax Credits have changed fairly recently - it used to be an issue if your salary for the year was £2500 out and being accurate was important - now it is £25000 and isn't
Just overestimate a bit - once and leave it until next April - as I said this years tax credits are based on LAST years income - s long as you submit the P60 and all income from last year accurately this years award is fixed - whatever income you get now - so no overpayment should occur
Likewise get the P60 info in at beginning April 2008 and the same will occur next year - i think it should be far less stressful now

Sugarplumfairy_2

I was the same ... had demands in for approx 800, another approx 900, and another approx 1100 !!!

I contacted them and they sorted it out .... worked out that I owed nothing.

I havent filled in any new paperwork for this year and havent rec'd any tax credits .... thank god ... would rather do without then have these huge demands at the year end.

frenchconnection200

I'm in the same boat, we get it one year then they take it off us the next year so surely we can't be entitled to them, but they are really unhelpful on the phone. One of there staff did give me a slightly different post code of PR1 oSB, and told me if I wrote they'd stop them. However I'm still waiting for a reply. I just don't want to claim for them anymore it's pointless. At the moment we are just saving it so we can give it back as per usual.
We live in a free country surely if you don't want to claim for something it shouldn't be forced on you.
Apparantly if you block payment going into your bank account they send you a giro, I told them I'd just rip it up, can't block the payments anyway as don't have their bank account details.
Sorry for long rant but this system of having something forced upon you makes me sick.

furby-2003

ive closed by bank account down and my account is on suspend until the end of august and they can shut my tax credits down altogether as long as i fill in no more forms :-)

With a £7k overpayment just paid off i'm glad to see the back of it!!