Reply to: Accountant not sumitted tax return last year or invoiced me for last 5 years

[GlenW]

This is the 23rd post, and only 1 from the OP.

He'll be rushing to get his EasyJet flight back from Germany.

[jmo21]

This is the 23rd post, and only 1 from the OP.

[psychocandy]

Liking your style PC!

Oh no am I turning into nluk?

[tractor]

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Got to be a windup. Doesnt pay for 5 years - decides to put his head down and not say anything.

Accountant who hasnt been paid for 5 years decides to do a bunk.

Not being funny like but its June now - surely at some point before jan you'd have thought to contact accountant just to confirm the SA is being done?

And you know the accountant has to get you to sign as well, dont you? A week before I would have been on the blower asking him where it was.

Fines by HMRC are made for people like you. As is jail.

The supplier concerned were accountants. There must be codes for accruals and prepayments in the balance sheet. A value should have been posted every year in the relevant financial period for each expected annual charge. OP must have signed them off annually or HMRC would have been bending them over long ago.

So, either the OP has been spending way beyond their means and have been insolvent for at least 4 of those 5 years or both the OP and the accountant have been negligent and incompetent and HMRC would probably argue that neither are fit to run a business.

Or it's a troll. I know where my money lies.

[northernladuk]

Fines by HMRC are made for people like you. As is jail.

Liking your style PC!

[psychocandy]

Got to be a windup. Doesnt pay for 5 years - decides to put his head down and not say anything.

Accountant who hasnt been paid for 5 years decides to do a bunk.

Not being funny like but its June now - surely at some point before jan you'd have thought to contact accountant just to confirm the SA is being done?

And you know the accountant has to get you to sign as well, dont you? A week before I would have been on the blower asking him where it was.

Fines by HMRC are made for people like you. As is jail.

[captainham]

he also has not billed us for 5 years.

And you weren't concerned about this? Didn't think to query it? Or just hoped you would get the services for free?

The head-in-sand approach with one's financial affairs shows wilful negligence on your part.

[alphadog]

hi

the company he left has now invoiced me for my two businesses for over £30,000

We can not pay the bills and feel very unhappy with the whole thing.

any advice?

Offer them £5,000, on the basis of the following:

• No letter of engagement/contract
• Failed to bill in a timely fashion
• Failed to complete and submit return(s)
• Poor service and communication
• Have insufficient funds to pay any more anyway

[TheFaQQer]

£30K for 5 years is a pretty hefty accountant's fee.

My previous accountant used to charge me nearly £3k a year before I left. Two companies, five years, no-one looking after the company properly...

[tractor]

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Definitely. There's a reek to this. Don't know what but it smells off.

Poor Mercalad won't like me saying but the thread smells of socks.

There were a lot left out yesterday.

[Alan @ BroomeAffinity]

Many times around the block tells me there is more to all of this, and in any event I think not billing for five years and dumping it in one go is on the edge of ethical. I don't hold out much hope they would do anything mind, and, in any event, I suspect there is more behind this.

Definitely. There's a reek to this. Don't know what but it smells off.

[Jessica@WhiteFieldTax]

Are there grounds for a complaint? Other than not bill the OP, the original accountant hasn't done much wrong.

Many times around the block tells me there is more to all of this, and in any event I think not billing for five years and dumping it in one go is on the edge of ethical. I don't hold out much hope they would do anything mind, and, in any event, I suspect there is more behind this.

[Alan @ BroomeAffinity]

£30K for 5 years is a pretty hefty accountant's fee.

Not really, not for two companies, with what appears at this remove to be a very much hands-off director when it comes to the accounts.

And the Institutes won't get involved in fee disputes anyway.

[mudskipper]

Are there grounds for a complaint? Other than not bill the OP, the original accountant hasn't done much wrong.

£30K for 5 years is a pretty hefty accountant's fee.

[Alan @ BroomeAffinity]

(b) if old accountant(s) are regulated, formulate a complaint to professional body. You will need to exhaust any internal complaints process first if you are in contact with them.

Are there grounds for a complaint? Other than not bill the OP, the original accountant hasn't done much wrong.