In brief: NAO condemns levels of error in tax credits payments

Nursery World, 19 July 2007

Incorrect payments of tax credits totalling £1billion are made each year through error or fraud, a report by the National Audit Office on HM Revenue and Customs has revealed. Although the Revenue closed its tax credits internet site in December 2005 and has changed its compliance procedure, the NAO still condemned the levels of claimant error and fraud as 'unacceptably high'.

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