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blue_monkey wrote: »

Also wanted to add that the HMRC are lovely to deal with and everyone I have spoken to by telephone has been extremely helpful, they seem like big bad wolves but they give excellent advice, you should not be scared of speaking to them and they will give you information that is 100% correct so you get things right.

To be honest I would take advice over the phone from HMRC with a pinch of salt as I sometimes found them incorrect, unless you can speak to a manager of someone knowledgeable up the food chain. Often they are just reading stuff off the website back at you. Also it is no real defence against the HMRC inspector that you are acting on advice from the helpline - the onus as always is on the taxpayer to get it right.

On the more positive side, having had two HMRC compliance visits in the last two months there were not that bad, really, although I know that is not everyone's experience of it.