Last updated at 16:37pm on 6th October 2006
father of two has pleaded with the tax authorities to stop sending him money - after he was inundated with more than £2,000-worth of cheques.
Robert Bradfield, 44, from Midsomer Norton, Somerset, was sent seven cheques for £291.76 from the unusually generous taxman.
But he soon found out that his unexpected windfall was the beginning of a "bureaucratic nightmare", which he claims has become so bad that he could be forced to move abroad just to escape from "incompetent" officials.
His problems began when he asked HM Revenues and Customs to stop paying him tax credits earlier this year after his income picked up.
He stopped the cash being paid directly into his account, but the persistent tax officials continued to find ways of paying him money he was not entitled to even after .
Cheques began arriving on his doorstep every month, followed by bills asking him to repay the money and accusations that he did not have any children.
The honest handyman decided the only way of getting through to the bungling bureaucrats would be to rip up a cheque and send it to their offices along with a note explaining he did not want it.
But a few days later he was sent back the ripped cheque, informing him he had sent it "in error." More problems were to follow. He often received two letters on the same day from the same office of the Working Families Tax Credit - one telling him he was no longer entitled to the money, the other sending him the cash.
"You'd think the Two Ronnies were in charge, but they could probably do a better job," he said today.
DailyMail
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