Rossendales - wtc overpayment

[Pudwud100]

Hi everyone.

 

I'm just after the best advice as to how to deal with Rossendales. Naturally I haven't and will not speak to them on the phone. They are claiming I owe a WTC overpayment of £139.07 from 2014. This would have been from the time when I was self-employed. I can just about remember getting some derisory amount of a couple of quid a week from way back. Could this be it?

 

Anyway, I thought I would 'test the water' so to speak with them and wrote back asking if the debt had been assigned to them, knowing full well that HMRC doesn't assign debts. They came back with two letters, one factual, one rude saying essentially send us a statement of your finances and stop messing about! Now for the life of me I MIGHT owe this debt, but then again I might not and HMRC could be wrong. Rossendales say they don't under the 2005 Act have to provide info proving the debt. I am minded to fire back a letter along the lines of 'psychological harassment' and say if you won't provide the info get HMRC to but I would welcome all views and thoughts before I do.

[TaxHero]

Do not deal with the debt collection agency.

 

Send 2 letters to HMRC.

 

1) Send a SAR.

 

2) Send a letter disputing the debt and ask for the harassment by the debt collectors to be stopped while the issue is investigated as its causing stress.

[dx100uk]

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/hmrc-subject-access-request