Breaking Through, Travelling On

gallygirl

Well done on the tax return progress :beer:. We completed Mr GG's yesterday and paid the amount due with a bit of tension but no blood spilled so that is progress :rotfl:. I find the main website very easy to use, but Mr GG's been put on a beta test version which wants P60 figures everytime you log in, plus a text messaged access code. Bit of a pain especially as when you go to pay it shows up the tax reference but not what is due and no getting back to where you were - you had to log out, log back in and write down the amount then manually enter which seemed crazy - it could at least have given you the amount due even if you then had to fill in manually in case you were making partial payments .

Re the dividends, unless you're talking about serious money I'd be inclined to just guestimate .

Goldiegirl

Neither of us have had to fill out a tax return for years, let alone do it online


But we've both always been PAYE with no BTL's etc, so our affairs have always been fairly simple (although the Tax office have to watched like hawks, as they can mess up even the most simple instructions! )

Karmacat

gallygirl wrote: »

Well done on the tax return progress :beer:.

Thanks! I was really pleased, you might be able to tell from my posts

We completed Mr GG's yesterday and paid the amount due with a bit of tension but no blood spilled so that is progress :rotfl:. I find the main website very easy to use, but Mr GG's been put on a beta test version which wants P60 figures everytime you log in, plus a text messaged access code. Bit of a pain especially as when you go to pay it shows up the tax reference but not what is due and no getting back to where you were - you had to log out, log back in and write down the amount then manually enter which seemed crazy - it could at least have given you the amount due even if you then had to fill in manually in case you were making partial payments .

Why do they do this to us! That sounds horrendous

Re the dividends, unless you're talking about serious money I'd be inclined to just guestimate .

Definitely not serious money For both of them, I've taken shares in lieu of dividends for years and years (for one, I started with 95 shares in 1995 :rotfl: it must have been a privatisation :rotfl:) and the total value of both sets of shares (not dividends) is less than £5k :rotfl: If they can't give me an accurate figure, yes, I'll add up the costs of the shares and the leftover dosh in the shareholder account, and bob's your uncle ... I'm not sweating it on these tiny amounts.

Goldiegirl wrote: »

Neither of us have had to fill out a tax return for years, let alone do it online

But we've both always been PAYE with no BTL's etc, so our affairs have always been fairly simple (although the Tax office have to watched like hawks, as they can mess up even the most simple instructions! )

I strongly regret not keeping my affairs simple, and going for shares and bonds etc, but too late now Self employment, however, was always an essential once I experienced it the horrors of either the London finance world or the political shenanigans in charity management saw to that :eek:

I popped out to the local Sainsbo first thing today, I really, really needed to buy a couple of pasta dishes that would stack in the dishwasher. I think these will, so they take up less space, so I use the dishwasher less often, its all good :money:

It wiped me out for the whole day until now, though since I've spent the day more or less glued to my armchair, I really appreciate the fact that I tidied up yesterday :rotfl:

smallholdingsister

It sounds like you made some delicious coulis.

Karmacat

That's right, SHS, it *is* coulis! Slightly thicker than it first seemed, but its still definitely a sauce of some description, not a set jelly

Tired again now - off for a sit down. I may have used the last of my Amazon Christmas voucher on Orphan Black Season 3, and it may have been delivered this afternoon (something was delivered, I have the box at my side, but I have no idea whats in it).

Have a good evening all.

xxx

smallholdingsister

It will be lovely with ice cream.

rtandon27

The coulis or the boxed set?;):D

Karmacat

rtandon27 wrote: »

The coulis or the boxed set?;):D

Both :j

Still not opened the unknown Amazon parcel. Instead, the end of Buffy Season 3 - I never saw it when it went out originally, and I couldn't watch the box set over Christmas because something had gone wrong and the wrong season ending was on the DVD. Weird, but true.

So, Buffy's high school graduation it is



And we have snow :snow_laug:snow_laug:snow_laug

It's not really sticking, or rather it's stuck and it's melting, but it's there :rudolf: So no gardening today

Anyway, I have an indoors project for the weekend - the whole shelf thing, moving my CDs and DVDs from the bookcase thats being chucked out, and doubling the storage on another, smaller bookcase by sawing old bedslats to create an extra shelf, so that everything will fit *easily* onto one "official" shelf I've done the same thing before with shoe storage in my wardrobe, but this will be on view, so it needs to be pretty

Might go out for a walk later when the snow calms down a bit :T

rtandon27

Snow?!?!?

Where???????:D:D:D

OH told me it was snowing late this morning & refused to do our weekend bbq brunch outside! - now the whole house smells like fry up!!!

All I could see was a few little flakes that melted when they hit the ground!:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

I was ready to dig out the winter mittens & build a snowman:(:(:(

:p:p

Have a lovely walk KC - It's nippy but fresh - filled a wheel barrow with garden bits this morning so not all that bad if you are bundled up!

Karmacat

I think we had your snow, RT :rotfl: it was an inch deep before it started melting, you can't really do much in the garden when its like that, honest. Glad you got some garden time in though, thats great!

Walk was extremely nippy :eek: but house was beautifully warm when I ran back inside :rotfl: Spent the rest of the time watching a snowman being built on the green - there really was that much snow, even here! Heaven only knows what it was like further north inland.

I'm pleased with how my shelf idea has turned out, and had a lovely few days off (already!!!) but I really don't want to work tomorrow, and I have commitments, grrr. Tomorrow is the start of week 32 in my retirement countdown, and only 30 of those are working weeks :j:j:j