Re: What happened to the latest 'review' of the CSA?

csadads@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> I may have read the signs wrong (and I hope I have), but I think the
> anouncement will have as its main priority collection and enforcement
> rather than making the Legislilation any fairer or more
> comprehensible.
>
> If that is so, dads are going to find very difficult times ahead.
>
> The Government have so far shown little interest in the plight of
> fathers - what matters to them is to reverse the political damage done
> by desperate mothers. Protecting the mothers vote is for Labour more
> important than ever particularly given David Camerons appointment and
> his obvious appeal over Gordon Brown. All fathers who do not pay the
> amount demanded (even if it is incorrectly assessed or unfair) are
> tarred as dead beat irresponsible fathers - not one of them in the
> eyes of the mother or the Government ever has a justifiable case - so
> what matters is to get the money.
>
> The supposed model which has impressed MPs on a fact finding visit was
> in Australia... It a 'Mothers Meal Ticket' model where fathers
> maintenence assessment is based on earnings potential rather than what
> the father actually earns. As for the Australian system being better
> ... it is calculated that for every doller collected, it cost the
> Government loses 5 dollers in one way or another. MPs should read
> this brief article.
>
> http://www.mensrights.com.au/index.php?article_id=233
>
> The odds are it will not be the Inland Revenue here because they have
> enough problems and in fact merged with Customs and Excise (VAT)
> earlier this year because of a massive VAT evasion case which cost
> the Treasury millions a couple of years back.
>
> However, it is possible the collection could well be put out to
> private companies linked probably to performence bonuses.

Collection could be offered to private companies as a contract between the
PWC and them - for a flat fee or a percentage of monies collected.

The australian systems are a bit different from ours - they have 2,like us,
but their systems are apart. You don't transfer from one at all - you stay
on it until the child grows up.

If collection and enforcement are pushed more, we'll likely see more of the
same kind of problems that have cropped up in the past couple of years since
it became a hot potato.
DEOs applied for no reason whatsoever, liability orders against those with
benefit or very low income only (on nil assessment), and demands to pay full
arrears within a very short timescale.
Those are what I've noticed so far - imagine how much worse it could get.

Trouble is, government gets a high idea like 'collect more arrears per
year'. What it translates to for the end user is that those who work hard at
not paying still mostly get away with it. Those who can be made to pay get
hit harder than before.
CSA has only limited enforcement powers - thats perhaps an issue that needs
looking at. Though even the introduction of removal of driving licences a
few years back doesn't seem to have been a great success in getting more
money flowing.

Martin <><


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