self assessment tax returns

dejongj

sloughflint wrote: »

I've often been tempted to do this for my Dad's returns. I'm glad I didn't go online. A small muck up a few years ago. Contacted them and they said I had not ticked a particular box. Luckily I had a photocopy to confirm otherwise. I dare say it wouldn't be so easy to prove with online option.

As said, you can download a copy...But like with any purchase and for your records you should always print off a copy so you know what you've filled in! Easier than going to a photo-copier

Cute_'n'_Quirky

I took a self-assessment tax return to my Tax Inspector and discussed it with him in the August of 2004. I got a sheepish phone call around November 2004 wanting to know if I had posted it to them because their computer said that they had it but they couldn't find it, so didn't know if they had it or not!

It was lost!


The only year I kept just four pages of photocopy from that return. They accepted it without question!

Cook_County

1. There has been a delay this year. I just hope the goverment has put a penalty clause in the contract so the company concerned is paying for its mistake!

2. I agree that sending huge booklets by mail is a waste of my money. Many other countries are changing their laws to remove this obvious waste from the system. Its about time HMRC stopped using the mail quite so much too!

dejongj

Cook_County wrote: »

1. There has been a delay this year. I just hope the goverment has put a penalty clause in the contract so the company concerned is paying for its mistake!

2. I agree that sending huge booklets by mail is a waste of my money. Many other countries are changing their laws to remove this obvious waste from the system. Its about time HMRC stopped using the mail quite so much too!

That is one of the things suggested and being implemented as part of the Lord Carter of Cole review....Expect that online filing will become mandated for many more groups than the limited tax/duty areas at the moment....

Cook_County

dejongj wrote: »

That is one of the things suggested and being implemented as part of the Lord Carter of Cole review....Expect that online filing will become mandated for many more groups than the limited tax/duty areas at the moment....

Mandatory online filing fills me with unease too as it will not suit many of the disadvantaged who need the most help.

However what I have in mind is that issuing zero statements of account with enclosed notes and prepaid envelopes is already helping no-one except for the profits of the post office.

Mailing any blank forms each April is also to my mind a waste because those who need to file should not need to be notified by this antiquated step of having to be formally issued a piece of paper (or indeed an email).

Those who have to file can request forms or pick these up from local tax offices/CABs etc if they can't don't have internet access.