Things have been hectic and busy here at the Tax Rebate Blog this month, which has not given us as much time as we would have liked to update the blog.

There have been a number of interesting posts in the tax world recently. With the up and coming American election I thought it might be interesting to focus on the best of these:

TaxGirl - Writes about which of the presidential candidates has the best plan for “middle class” America and how depending on where you live in America, middle class can be very different. An excellent post, be sure to give it a 5 minutes read when you get a chance.

The Wandering Tax Pro - Writes about the tax returns of the presidential candidates, Barack Obama and John McCain, providing links on the location for their tax returns for 2006 and 2007. A similar system for the UK would make our Members of Parliament much more accountable after the current expenses debacle.

Every few days we make a random check of our Spam Email to make sure nothing has inadvertently been sucked in. Today something caught our eye which we thought we should warn people about.

The Email that caught out eye was from HM Revenue and Customs and it pretended to be a notification of a tax refund Needless to say that we were quite intrigued! The Email goes on to say that we are due a tax refund of 188.50 and requests that we press, on what appears to be an official HM Revenue link to claim back these over paid taxes.

Needless to say this is a scam, an attempt by some opportunistic identity thief trying to get as much information as they can from you. If you put your mouse over the link, you will see in fact that the link redirect to you to a different site.

Our advice, if you see an Email like this, ignore it or delete it straight away, do not be tempted by the lure of free money and remember ‘if it seems too good to be true….it probably is!’

If you think that you might be due a tax refund, Tax Fix offers a ‘No Rebate, No Fee’ service. We also have a free uk tax rebate calculator so you can check to how to get a tax rebate.