"Where is your tax office?"

John_Pierpoint

I am sitting here looking at a form with a box marked:

HM Revenue & Customs Tax Office?
Reference in that office or National Insurance Number?

I think the correct answer now is "In a computer at a secret location with a 24 hour back-up at another secret location" ? (*)

I have received a SA tax return from Cardiff CF14 8HR. and filled in in.
Now I have got a tax calculation from Newcastle NE98 1WY, which is different from this time last year.

The last thing I want to do is start a(nother) mad paper chase round the country !

John

(*) I know of two anonymous "factories" near here - one is collecting a tax and the other is backing up a financial institution - but neither of them would be the address for correspondence for the organisations to which they belong and both would be a difficult target for a car bomb.

antonic

Now thats the problem with the old Inland Revenue side of HMRC, they still do everything by post ...
The Old Customs & Excise side deal with post electronically (far more efficient and the post cant get lost !).

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

I am sitting here looking at a form with a box marked:

HM Revenue & Customs Tax Office?
Reference in that office or National Insurance Number?

I think the correct answer now is "In a computer at a secret location with a 24 hour back-up at another secret location" ? (*)

I have received a SA tax return from Cardiff CF14 8HR. and filled in in.
Now I have got a tax calculation from Newcastle NE98 1WY, which is different from this time last year.

The last thing I want to do is start a(nother) mad paper chase round the country !

John

(*) I know of two anonymous "factories" near here - one is collecting a tax and the other is backing up a financial institution - but neither of them would be the address for correspondence for the organisations to which they belong and both would be a difficult target for a car bomb.

John_Pierpoint

Where is my tax office:eek::rotfl:

Somehow I don't think the "modern" command and control HMRC operatives have much of a sense of humour - so a cartoon reply won't go down too well.

This time last year the calculation came from Bradford BD1 4YL

[As I write this there is a radio item about gold theft in Bradford - some of those folks must be finding themselves unexpectedly wealthy relative to this printed fiat currency merry go round]

Has my "file" been "de-materialised" into the computer system.

ctm_2

John_Pierpoint wrote: »

Where is my tax office:eek::rotfl:

Somehow I don't think the "modern" command and control HMRC operatives have much of a sense of humour - so a cartoon reply won't go down too well.

This time last year the calculation came from Bradford BD1 4YL

[As I write this there is a radio item about gold theft in Bradford - some of those folks must be finding themselves unexpectedly wealthy relative to this printed fiat currency merry go round]

Has my "file" been "de-materialised" into the computer system.

You don't have a tax office. You are dealt with wherever they have capacity at the time to deal with you. That's why they now use a couple of PO Box addresses. Just write to one of them (one in cardiff, one in liverpool, or to the address on the last piece of correspondence you received from HMRC.

Do you seriously think you have a 'file', i.e a folder full of paper? Of course it's all computerised!!

antonic

In the old Inland Revenue side its still done on paper !

ctm wrote: »

You don't have a tax office. You are dealt with wherever they have capacity at the time to deal with you. That's why they now use a couple of PO Box addresses. Just write to one of them (one in cardiff, one in liverpool, or to the address on the last piece of correspondence you received from HMRC.

Do you seriously think you have a 'file', i.e a folder full of paper? Of course it's all computerised!!

John_Pierpoint

It is HMRC who has written to me asking me where my tax office is:rotfl:

I don't want to upset them. I've got nothing to hide.

Do you think one of the addresses plus my UTR number would do.

[It is probably the start of some sort of investigation to tie up a loose end. I got a letter once, asking me if I knew anything about my mysteriously disappearing neighbour - the letter came from an address in Glasgow.
Some of us in the street think he has done a Reggie Perrin.

Reggie fakes his suicide by leaving clothes and personal effects on a beach.

For "teenage scribblers" here is a link:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Fall_and_Rise_of_Reginald_Perrin ]

Savvy_Sue

I'll lose the will to live if I go and browse the HMRC website, but isn't there a search box on there which helps you find your tax office? Or is that only for employers, if you know your employer's code you can find your tax office?

Of course in the good old days when I'm sure we did all have a paper file, your tax office was never your local office, in case one of your neighbours worked there. But if any of my colleagues need to speak to the tax office, it is indeed the 'local' office, just down the road from us.

gt94sss2

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

I'll lose the will to live if I go and browse the HMRC website, but isn't there a search box on there which helps you find your tax office? Or is that only for employers, if you know your employer's code you can find your tax office?

HMRC used to have a tax office locator (archived here)

Now, the current page just seems to say:

You can write to HMRC by using the postal address on the most recent correspondence from us.

If you don't have recent correspondence from us then write to:

HM Revenue & Customs
Pay As You Earn
PO Box 1970
Liverpool
L75 1WX

Regards
Sunil

John_Pierpoint

ctm wrote: »

You don't have a tax office. You are dealt with wherever they have capacity at the time to deal with you. That's why they now use a couple of PO Box addresses. Just write to one of them (one in cardiff, one in liverpool, or to the address on the last piece of correspondence you received from HMRC.

Do you seriously think you have a 'file', i.e a folder full of paper? Of course it's all computerised!!

The last piece of paper came from Newcastle yesterday and thanked me for amending my SA tax return (Phew, I thought "here we go this will be an excuse to fine me £100 under the new regime".
Interestingly the original return had been processed showing my interest income as 0.00 that would have been a first in nearly 50 years - I had somehow managed not to transcribe the total from my rough copy into the official posh return. - It makes no difference to my tax payable as [sadly?] I am no longer a higher rate tax payer.)

Perhaps Newcastle is just a number crunching, statement printing "factory", where fork lift trucks are required to lift the printout off the printing machines? [Got to do something for the Geordies, as they appear to be the worst affected region for government cut backs?]

I think I will use the Cardiff address, as Cardiff scored best in the "horrendous" backlog figures, given to parliament under a freedom of information request, about three years ago.

Anyone from Cardiff struggling with their new found responsibilities?