Wrong postcode in VAT returns envelope?

**RichardCranium** · 20 July 2009, 11:43

Originally posted by kingshuk View Post

Do you know what the correct address is?

It is whatever the Royal Mail says it is.

The Royal Mail owns postcodes. What they says goes and that's that.

**kingshuk** · 20 July 2009, 22:11

Originally posted by RichardCranium View Post

It is whatever the Royal Mail says it is.

Trouble is - the person at the counter tells me that the post code I am trying to send is incorrect. He doesn't know the correct VAT office address either. Others seem to be facing the same problem. For example here in accountingweb - http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/item/193961

or here - http://www.ukbusinessforums.co.uk/fo.../t-100405.html

**RichardCranium** · 20 July 2009, 23:06

The answer was in those threads.

The Royal Mail has changed the post code (as they do from time to time) but HMRC are still sending out envelopes with the old one.

The old address was:
VAT Controller
VAT Central Unit
BX5 5AT

Any stock of pre-paid envelopes with the old address should not be used.

The new address is:
VAT Controller
VAT Central Unit
BD98 1YY

Phone the VAT Helpline in the morning and ask them to double-check.

**NotAllThere** · 21 July 2009, 05:30

Originally posted by RichardCranium View Post

...

Any stock of pre-paid envelopes with the old address should not be used.

be posted back to HMRC attached to a brick.

**Archangel** · 21 July 2009, 08:22

Online is of course the way to go.

and you get extra time to pay.

**RichardCranium** · 21 July 2009, 09:21

Originally posted by Archangel View Post

Online is of course the way to go.

and you get extra time to pay.

This, however, was the VAT Return. Paying it online is a doddle. Doing the return online is A F***ING NIGHTMARE OF BIBLICAL PROPORTIONS INCOMPETENT BASTARD TOSS W**NK GITS SECURITY SYSTEM MENTALIST STUPID EMAIL POXY SYSTEM NAFF POSTED NUMBERS AND PASSWORDS DIFFERENT NAMES FOR THE SAME INFORMATION MULTIPLE EMAIL ADDRESSES AARRRRGGGGHHHHH!

Sorry.

Doing the return online is a challenge.

**gingerjedi** · 21 July 2009, 09:55

Did mine online last night, easy peasy.

**kingshuk** · 21 July 2009, 11:49

Called VAT office again. This time they confirmed the correct postcode is

BD98 1YY

**Refugee** · 31 March 2014, 15:20

Moving secret postcodes

I have had the same problem.

I have envelopes with both secret post codes on them. These are BX55HB and the Google pin does not land at all.
The other is BD981YY and it drops the pin in the Yorkshire dales national park.
They sent me a form and when I went to do it on line a screen appeared telling me to wait weeks. I resorted to the paper form in order to get the papers cleared from my desk. The form had a return address StAustell PL255YN and the pin drops on a postal sorting office from Google.
The form did not arrive. 6 months later after paying one penalty they demanded another so there is no point in paying these penalties as they do not stop.
I used the phone in a job center to find out what was going on and got them to send me a duplicate form. It arrived with a scruffy bit of paper with another address on it this time Cardiff CF148HR and this also puts the pin on a postal sorting office.
I have after about a year got a letter from a London office. This is SE19PY and the pin lands on a revenue building. I wrote to it and a reply has come back with a return address in derby DE11RU and again the pin lands on a revenue building.
The two letters have different named people they are from.
We are aiming at a moving target and they want you to miss so that they can demand penalties. This is very suspicious.
I asked them about the change of address they made without informing me and was rudely ignored.
I have included all the post codes so that others can find us with Google.

Wrong postcode in VAT returns envelope?