Self Assessment Online

[PAH]

If you get caught do you then complain about inadequate policing?

No, I put on a curly wig and moustache before asking "is it coz I squeak?"

[PAH]

I'm hoping for the same as well. I got picked up for my expense claims a couple of years back by the Kent Office at the time. However, I'm now under the Portsmouth area, with a new tax office, so maybe I might get picked on again.

Even though I'm in the same area I've noticed each year they change the office I should send it to. Maybe I'm on a boundary or something.

I usually hand deliver it to avoid inevitable Royal Mail burger ups, but this year Autoroute suggests their address is in the middle of a field. I'm expecting an announcement on the news that they've mislaid them all, closely followed by a new mountain being discovered.

[Bagpuss]

That's why I use the Liverpool fan mentality, rush them and hope you get through without being spotted.

If you get caught do you then complain about inadequate policing?

[Weltchy]

That's why I use the Liverpool fan mentality, rush them and hope you get through without being spotted. No doubt all of us that leave it to the last minute think the same, and it's nothing to do with being too lazy to do it early.

I did get investigated for expense claims about 5 years ago. Hopefully as I was deemed clean that time they'll just let me through if anyone considers doing another investigation again. Surely we'd have a case of victimisation if we kept being investigated, or more than once in a short period of time.

I'm hoping for the same as well. I got picked up for my expense claims a couple of years back by the Kent Office at the time. However, I'm now under the Portsmouth area, with a new tax office, so maybe I might get picked on again.

[PAH]

I did mine back in October, though I paid the outstanding amount a couple of days ago. Must admit, the thought does play on your mind that someone in the tax office basically places a whole bunch of returns in front of him or her and then says the magic words...

Eenie meanie minee moe


Either that, or they flip a coin to decide whether to investigate!!!

That's why I use the Liverpool fan mentality, rush them and hope you get through without being spotted. No doubt all of us that leave it to the last minute think the same, and it's nothing to do with being too lazy to do it early.

I did get investigated for expense claims about 5 years ago. Hopefully as I was deemed clean that time they'll just let me through if anyone considers doing another investigation again. Surely we'd have a case of victimisation if we kept being investigated, or more than once in a short period of time.

[Weltchy]

I did mine back in October, though I paid the outstanding amount a couple of days ago. Must admit, the thought does play on your mind that someone in the tax office basically places a whole bunch of returns in front of him or her and then says the magic words...

Eenie meanie minee moe


Either that, or they flip a coin to decide whether to investigate!!!

[DaveB]

Paper version vetted and sent in by the accountants a couple of weeks ago, payed via bank transfer last week. Sorted.

[Chantho]

Geez. I did mine in June.

Really. Is it *that* hard to get with the program and get organised.

Completed mine online circa June, I owed them something from past years, paid up and got a "you are up-to-date / don't owe anything" confirmation (albeit some months later). No problem at all.

[tay]

I have been brainwashed

The first thing I thought when I read the thtead title was "tax doesnt have to be taxing"

[PAH]

The cynic in me says HMRC have done it on purpose to rake in the £100 fines. Got to be worth a few million to them.

The psychic in me foresaw this cock-up and sent the paper version in a couple of days ago. It was so hard working out I owed them nothing, again.

[MarillionFan]

Nah given up. Mines too bloody complicated anyway.

My account rushed off yesterday as is father died suddenly, so I suppose I'll have to wait until he's back, do it next week and take the fine. I'll just pass it on to him


....(joking)

[rootsnall]

Mine went through no probs earlier in the week, seems one of the better gov websites. The DVLA one is a complete non starter, I've never got past the logon page yet.

[Sockpuppet]

Geez. I did mine in June.

Really. Is it *that* hard to get with the program and get organised.

[dude69]

let's face it though: anyone that left it this late is a muppet.

Hope HMRC sues its IT provider though

[Weltchy]

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/7219718.stm

Is it me, or do the words "Piss-up", "Brewery" and "Couldn't Organise" apply to this government?