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Renske Leijten: 'Warning signs deliberately ignored in tax office scandal'

Renske Leijten in an earlier debate on the child benefits system. Photo: ANP/Phil Nijhuis
The most galling thing about the childcare benefit scandal, says Renske Leijten, is that it happened in plain sight. Rank and file civil servants were aware that the tax service’s dragnet anti-fraud strategy was having devastating consequences for the parents who became entangled in it, but their warnings went unheeded.
Leijten, a Socialist Party MP, has been one of the most prominent campaigners in politics for the wronged families, along with her Christian Democrat colleague Pieter Omtzigt. The recent parliamentary investigative committee hearings on the scandal have laid bare how frequently and, she argues, systematically, the red flags were missed.

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