Childcare Credit Open For Fraud ?
Sometimes i personally think the government make it easier or just knowingly let people abuse the system till they get fed up or some political opponent raises the question not for a greater social solution but just as a way of proving the old system failed to deliver.
In UK “Childcare Tax Credit ” is so open for abuses .
Applicants for the Childcare Tax Credit have to give the registration number of the care provider they are using. But the number can easily be obtained because nurseries,childminders are required to quote it on every piece of paper they provide to clients.
Then after you managed to find some registration number and give them with when the kid going to the childminder ,usually weekdays you are working aswell , the cost will be paid into your bank.
But what they don’t realize is lot of parents don’t take their kid to the childminder after that ,or they managed to negociate a lower fees ,or the time they said they are working changed , so what they getting is not what they paying to the childminder.Some even just use some others people registration number to get the costs.
The worst part is lot of people signed usually like a year or six month contract with their childminders but then when the contract ends, they will take their kids off the childminder but still don’t noticed the IR ,so the cost still be paid.
Like a month ago i raised the question with some childminder and asked him if he can’t called the inland revenu and noticed them how many kids he got or when a contract end and you sure the parents getting childcare costs?
His reply make me wonder more : He told me he called himself inland revenu and asked that same question and the gentleman he talked to said no he is not allowed to called ,its the parents responsability since it’s them the cost goes too.
Why the IR can’t just set a tighter rule or even allow the care provider to contact them when the contract end or at least send a copy of the contract or some sort of proofs or eve paid directly to the care provider?
Yes i know you can’t trick the system ,it’s just a matter of time before you get caught but isn’t it should be hard in the first place instead of open for frauds ?
So who to blame now if one day you get caught in childcare fraud ? Inland Revenue for living it so open or your fault trying to abuse it a little bit more ?
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