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New system aids tax credit fraud
By Simon Vevers,
Nursery World,
10 March 2005
Pressure is mounting on the Government to rethink how it subsidises childcare amid concerns that increasing numbers of parents are exploiting the way childcare tax credit operates and defrauding the system. The issue was highlighted last month when Joanne Welsh, a Tyneside hairdresser, was jailed for five months after admitting she had falsely claimed nearly Pounds 26,000 in tax credits, including childcare costs over three years that she had not incurred.
Pressure is mounting on the Government to rethink how it subsidises childcare amid concerns that increasing numbers of parents are exploiting the way childcare tax credit operates and defrauding...
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