Self assessment on line AAAARRRGGGHHH!!

barak

Mary_Hartnell wrote: »

HOWEVER three years ago I was forced out of the online system because it could not cope with an untaxed income (of over 300 GBP) from Dubai. Nor could it manage trust income from the estate of a deceased person (my father!).

Anybody know if it could handle these sorts of income in its latest manifestation?

It appears that the HMRC's own system can now (since July 2008) cope with Foreign Income, but not Trust Income.
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/sa/software.htm#1

I have the same sort of requirements as you and have been using a commercial package for several years - recently Legatio's Ftax.
https://www.fasttax.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1&Itemid=2

The HMRC site lists approved suppliers and states that some of them are free of charge. It might be worth investigating that list.
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/efiling/sa_efiling/soft_dev.htm

Mary_Hartnell

Thanks,
I've got rid of the Dubai investment, just as it becomes possible to report it on-line.
Have acquired another interest in a deceased relative's estate, so looks like I will be doing it on paper again next year unless they manage to get that additional page on-line,
Last year I had to report the sale of an asset considerably greater than 35K or what ever (share in dad's house). I self evidently did not owe any CGT. The B****** sat on my paper return until Xmas and then posted it all back to me saying I had not entered the 1982 (?) value of the asset. I had to waste a day of my life driving over to dad's town and looking up the newspapers on microfiche just to calculate the tax I did not have to pay! Grrrr.

vet8

As the original poster, I just have to rant again!!:mad:

I have printed off a paper tax return, but can I find an address to send it to? NOOO!!! I have spent AGES looking at their useless site and there is no address. So I keep trying with the online bit, still it says I am 95% of the way through.

But then last week I received 2 e-mails saying I had sucessfully submitted something to the Government Gateway!! Yess!!!! Has it finally gone?

NO. The emails did not say I had sent my tax return and they did not quote my tax reference number which last year's e-mail did, they quoted my NI number. When l went on to the tax return site it says I am still not sent off AAGGGHHH. So who knows what I have sent apparently??

Someone show me a tax man and I will set my dogs on him.