New Incompetence

[martinb]

Tax Credits

The Tax Credits office redefine the word incompetent. Having lodged a formal complaint they sent me an acknowledgement letter telling me I will have a response by 21 April 2006. It also gave me a phone number to call in case I needed to contact them. So....now being 26 April and me having heard not a squeak from them, I thought I'd phone them up. So I dialled the number given - it was unobtainable! They are incapable even of giving out their own phone number correctly!

[John Galt]

After a massive increase in overpayments in 2003-4, the increase in overpayments for 2004-5 has been reduced by 2.2 billion.

Surely this is great news!

I have read this 4 times and it still doesn't make sense

[threaded]

I have read this 4 times and it still doesn't make sense

It's not supposed to, that's the joke.

[Mailman]

voilà

Fecken lucky I didnt spell it "wallah"!

Mailman

[Mailman]

After a massive increase in overpayments in 2003-4, the increase in overpayments for 2004-5 has been reduced by 2.2 billion.

Surely this is great news!

So does the government count the difference between 2003-4 and 2004-5 as profit? After all...if its willing to count money that it hasnt made as a loss [tax avoidance schemes] then this sounds perfectly good to me

Mailman

[John Galt]

It's not supposed to, that's the joke.

Aaaahhhhhh - now it makes sense - thanks Threaded.

[PerlOfWisdom]

After a massive increase in overpayments in 2003-4, the increase in overpayments for 2004-5 has been reduced by 2.2 billion.

Surely this is great news!

I have read this 4 times and it still doesn't make sense

The increase in overpayments from 2002-3 (when there wasn't any tax credits) to 2003-4 was 2.2 Billion.

The overpayments in 2004-5 was the same as the overpayments in 2003-4.

So the increase in overpayments was zero.

This is 2.2 billion less than the increase in overpayments from 2002-3 to 2003-4.

[Fleetwood]

Quoi?

[BlasterBates]

The increase in overpayments from 2002-3 (when there wasn't any tax credits) to 2003-4 was 2.2 Billion.

The overpayments in 2004-5 was the same as the overpayments in 2003-4.

So the increase in overpayments was zero.

This is 2.2 billion less than the increase in overpayments from 2002-3 to 2003-4.

[sasguru]

Well you see it's like this:

The increase in overpayments from 2002-3 (when there wasn't any tax credits) to 2003-4 was 2.2 Billion.

The overpayments in 2004-5 was the same as the overpayments in 2003-4.

So the increase in overpayments was zero.

This is 2.2 billion less than the increase in overpayments from 2002-3 to 2003-4.