Self-assessed payments and return date

jimmo

If you need to encourage him then, fairly obviously, if he is entitled to a repayment the sooner he submits his Return the sooner he will get his money back. Also, from a Taxman’s point of view, its understandable that people who know they are entitled to a repayment are likely to submit their Returns ASAP but those who are entitled to a repayment but submit their Returns in January are far more likely to not really understand the system and therefore far more likely to have got it wrong. Potentially easy Enquiry pickings.

Savvy_Sue

jimmo wrote: »

If you need to encourage him then, fairly obviously, if he is entitled to a repayment the sooner he submits his Return the sooner he will get his money back.

Which I have been saying pretty much since his employment ended. And said a few more times once he'd submitted his return (requested by HMRC) for 2013-14.

Trouble is he hasn't perceived us as NEEDING the money. And there are always more urgent things for him to do.

When we first married I did not TOUCH our financial affairs but left it all to him, then as time went by I realised that I had more time to reconcile the bank statements than he did, so I learned. I'm now a dab hand with a spreadsheet, which for a maths-phobic is not bad going!

jimmo wrote: »

Also, from a Taxman’s point of view, its understandable that people who know they are entitled to a repayment are likely to submit their Returns ASAP but those who are entitled to a repayment but submit their Returns in January are far more likely to not really understand the system and therefore far more likely to have got it wrong. Potentially easy Enquiry pickings.

You talk a lot of sense jimmo. We have gone for the KISS approach this year.

Anatidaephobia

Savvy_Sue wrote: »

I have been gently prodding DH to do his for months and months and months. But only now, when my prods are becoming more insistent, is he getting round to it ...

And DS1's response in December was "But it's not due in until the end of January!" And last week it was "I've still got weeks!"

Keep saying it, but there are some people who just don't listen or learn ...

It's because people treat 31st January as a target rather than a deadline.