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I've filled in the first five pages of the English tax return. Such a victory! It changes slightly every year, so every year it's a potluck. Woo hoo
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How many pages long is it...? Hope it's not as long as your to do list...
NST March lion #8; NSD ; MFW9/3/23 Whoop Whoop!!!4 -
KC - I'm not sure if my story below is relevant to you, but I'd say yes to keeping the proof for the usual 7 year period...Karmacat said:...I keep train/bus tickets too: the rationale was that if I got audited by the tax people, I could prove where I was and roughly what I was doing. Would they do that to me nowadays? I'm such small fry ... we'll see. ...
I've in the past had to write a letter for a member of staff who was being audited, in order to prove that they had taken x numbers of days of their main job. This was because they had a side hustle & were submitting a tax return to cover self-employment and paye. Had they kept their train/bus tickets, I'd have not had to write the letter!4 YEARS 10 MONTHS DEBT FREE!!! (24 OCT 2016)(With heartfelt thanks to those who have gone before us & their indubitable generosity.)...and now I have a mortgage! (23 AUG 2021)New projection - 14 YEARS 10 MONTHS LEFT OF 20 YEARS (reduced by 15 mths)Psst...I may have started a diary!3 -
You are so organised I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.
Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb. ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
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That *is* relevant, thanks RT! Or rather, it *was* relevant, because there were some journeys I claimed for, eg to meet with my business partner, or to work up in London. I've sort of kept stuff in case they accuse me of jetting off somewhere, and I can say, look, I went to London to see an exhibition at the British Museum! etc etc etc ... It always surprises me, but my name is apparently quite common - a cousin married a woman with my name in Africa, and my NI got mixed up for years with a British woman who had my name and also my birthday! She was two years older than me. Weird but true.rtandon27 said:
KC - I'm not sure if my story below is relevant to you, but I'd say yes to keeping the proof for the usual 7 year period...Karmacat said:...I keep train/bus tickets too: the rationale was that if I got audited by the tax people, I could prove where I was and roughly what I was doing. Would they do that to me nowadays? I'm such small fry ... we'll see. ...
I've in the past had to write a letter for a member of staff who was being audited, in order to prove that they had taken x numbers of days of their main job. This was because they had a side hustle & were submitting a tax return to cover self-employment and paye. Had they kept their train/bus tickets, I'd have not had to write the letter!
I'd like to bebeanielou said:You are so organised
everything gets chucked in a plastic shoebox, and once a year I unearth it and monopolise my diary in wittering on about it Do you remember Taxi doing her accounts every month? I miss Taxi, and wow, she was so organised ...
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Yes, the lovely Taxi.
So many people so sadly missed over the years.
Kissing Jen. I often think of her son. He was the same age as my DS
I am a Forum Ambassador and I support the Forum Team on Mortgage Free Wannabe & Local Money Saving Scotland & Disability Money Matters. If you need any help on those boards, do let me know.Please note that Ambassadors are not moderators. Any post you spot in breach of the Forum Rules should be reported via the report button , or by emailing forumteam@moneysavingexpert.com. All views are my own & not the official line of Money Saving Expert.
Lou~ Debt free Wanabe No 55 DF 03/14.**Credit card debt free 30/06/10~** MFW. Finally mortgage free O2/ 2021****
"A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of" Jane Austen in Mansfield Park.
***Fall down seven times,stand up eight*** ~~Japanese proverb. ***Keep plodding*** Out of debt, out of danger. ***Be the difference.***
One debt remaining. Home improvement loan.4 -
It's tax return day here today (apparently) DH does one (my affairs have always been so simple I don't). It will involve much Mutley-ing at the kitchen table, papers spread out and a stated intent to do things as he goes in future (yeah, right). So I will just stay out of the way - I hope to have access to the kitchen today so I can get painting again!Save £12k in 2025 #2 I am at £4863.32 out of £6000 after May (81.05%)
OS Grocery Challenge in 2025 I am at £1286.68/£3000 or 42.89% of my annual spend so far
I also Reverse Meal Plan on that thread and grow much of our own premium price fruit and veg, joining in on the Grow your own thread
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Yup, same stated intentSuffolk_lass said:It's tax return day here today (apparently) DH does one (my affairs have always been so simple I don't).
If it weren't for the French apartment, I wouldn't need to do one now either ... my dumbest decision in *so* many ways!
It will involve much Mutley-ing at the kitchen table, papers spread out and a stated intent to do things as he goes in future (yeah, right). So I will just stay out of the way - I hope to have access to the kitchen today so I can get painting again! it never works. Loving the Muttley impression 2023: the year I get to buy a car3 -
Good so far: added up the incoming and outgoing very quickly, thats always the easy bit, found the right exchange rate (at the end of the English tax year) chucked the sterling-equivalent figures into the boxes, and chose the easy "summary of expenses" this time, as its under £85k (!!! the whole property is valued at less than £85k!) Council tax etc is allowed in that box, so I put the French taxe fonciere in there (the form is a miserable mishmash of English and French terms) and hey presto, all done for the French stuff.
All I have to do now is find the interest payable on my UK interest-bearing accounts. Cor.2023: the year I get to buy a car3 -
NST March lion #8; NSD ; MFW9/3/23 Whoop Whoop!!!3
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