My dad usually files his tax return form around this time of the year, and we get a £3,000 tax return which usually helps with the bills and goes towards things like Christmas and my birthday.

Unfortunately, however, the HMRC (Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs) claims that the tax return has already been filed and that the money has gone/will be going (I didn't catch much) to our accountant, or something like that.

However, our tax return form hasn't been filed yet and this guy isn't even our accountant. So, either, this guy has somehow got hold of our accountant's records or our accountant is in on it.

Either way, we're £3,000 out of pocket if this cunt isn't caught.

Unless your family is somehow to blame (negligence, for example), doesn't it fall on the fiscus to make sure they don't just pay frauds? And if they made this mistake, couldn't they be held resposnible for this?

Not entirely sure what's going to happen to be honest.

I'm just going to watch it develop.

Ban taxes.

Just seems unlikely to me that the fiscus can just give money to the wrong person and get away with it. Even if said person committed fraud, it is still the government making the mistake.

"Yeah, we're terribly sorry for not actually making sure that the person claiming your tax returns was who he said he was, but you can suck it and lose out on quite a bit of money due to a mistake we made."

Not sure what it's like in the UK, but that wouldn't hold up over here unless your family was somehow at fault.

I don't know. My mom seems to think if he's withdrawn the money and disappeared - thus losing the capacity to freeze his account or whatever - then the HMRC won't pay it out again, despite their fault.