Ideas for getting rid of old company paper files

[northernladuk]

Wait until you get a client with a confidential document bin that gets shredded onsite. Bung it in there over the period of the gig.

[jaffab]

Wait until you get a client with a confidential document bin that gets shredded onsite. Bung it in there over the period of the gig.

Ohhhh - nice idea. Plus I can re-enact the "great escape" scenes..... Payroll slips down my trouser legs, McDonalds receipts in my pants, a suite made out of petty cash vouchers, and a motorbike jump over the coffee machine.

Concerned about this 'keep them' discussion. My accountant says its good to go - This (https://www.gov.uk/running-a-limited...unting-records) says....

How long to keep records

You must normally keep records for at least 6 years from the end of the last company financial year they relate to.

You may need to keep records longer if:
they show a transaction that covers more than one of the company’s accounting periods
the company has bought something that it expects to last more than 6 years, like equipment or machinery
you sent your Company Tax Return late
HMRC has started a compliance check into your Company Tax Return

[barrydidit]

Make charcoal with it

https://uk.answers.yahoo.com/questio...3033847AAbxdml

Then buy some decent sausages and have a bbq

[BrilloPad]

Get the office below AtW's. Wait for the "coffee machine"**** to flood should sort it.

**** I think AtW was having a bath with his squirrel friends and got carried away.

[dx4100]

1. Original documents.
2. Backup.
3. You won't have to tell auditors/HMRC that you shredded original documents.

HMRC don't require you to keep anything beyond six years plus the current year. So the above is not an issue.

Any other reason ?

[dx4100]

Wait until you get a client with a confidential document bin that gets shredded onsite. Bung it in there over the period of the gig.

This ^

[northernladuk]

Sorry all... Someone hacked my account and posted useful information. Now where were we...

Have you asked your accountant?

[BrilloPad]

Sorry all... Someone hacked my account and posted useful information. Now where were we...

Have you asked your accountant?

You should not have given NLyUK a break. Get her back on her back....

[jaffab]

Neglecting the fact that Hector can go back 20 years if the fancy so takes him/her/it.

But, if the principle advice on the HMRC web site says you don't have to keep them, you can just say "well, your guidance said I could get rid of them, so I did, sorry - don't have the receipts you need".

[dx4100]

Neglecting the fact that Hector can go back 20 years if the fancy so takes him/her/it.

You still don't have to keep anything beyond six years and the current year. We can play this game all day but it doesn't change the facts.