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Who’s doing the ripping off?
Key points
- HMRC has a policy of ‘pay now ask questions later’.
- In a number of cases HMRC has made tax repayments to fraudsters who stole another’s personal information.
- HMRC has tried to claim the stolen money back from the defrauded party.
An HMRC press release of 22 June tells me that ‘new measures to stop rip-off agents taking advantage of people … have been proposed by HMRC’.
I don’t want to write about the consultation on Repayment Agents though. I want to write about Mike Grogan and Richard Tweddle.
Ripped off
But before I do I want to pose some questions to readers. Suppose someone steals my identity files a fictitious tax return in my name claiming a tax repayment and HMRC pays the money into the scammer’s bank account. When they discover they have been had should they be able to reclaim...
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