This tale follows on from the earlier reclaim notice discussed here: http://www.enz.org/forum/showthread.php?t=32689
Does anyone know much about HMRC trying to reclaim overpaid tax credits 18 months after emigration? They have already "reconsidered evidence" like the fact that they didn't update their records when advised of our move, and the amount has gone down by ~£400, but that still leaves ~£500 owed (according to them). They haven't actually given us a deadline for payment, but I'm tempted to appeal again...
The reasons given in their letter are that "the award on which the overpayment arose has ended / the overpayment that arose from the date of the change until 30 days after you told us about the change." Does anyone understand this gobbledegook?
I'm pretty sure we didn't get much in the way of tax credits in the first place, but need to dig out the original paperwork (naturally it's buried somewhere, but at least this came through before we have to move out for EQC repairs). If this works out to be more than 1/12 of what they calculated as our entitlement way back in 2010 (or would it have been 2009?), then I suspect they've decided we were entitled to WTC after reclaiming our tax... and if so I'll be very angry, because they should have included that in their calcs in the very beginning.
Any thoughts from anyone who understands tax...?