Bloody accountants

[FarmerPalmer]

That's all well and good but in my own case I just seem to go from one useless f**wit to another. I'm paying mine £140 per month and here I am with my 2008-2009 corporation tax due on the 1 Jan and I still don't have a final figure.

Do It Yourself - You can probably do it in the time that you are chasing the accountant to do it for you. There are a couple of threads on this in the Accounting/Legal section.

[xoggoth]

I've sent yet another letter of complaint to my MP about the continual bleeding changes to online submission things, the new PDF formats that don't work and the extra pointless questions and it's been sent to head of HMRC. If I get investigated we will know the truth about our impartial services.

[wurzel]

sack your accountant now

That's all well and good but in my own case I just seem to go from one useless f**wit to another. I'm paying mine £140 per month and here I am with my 2008-2009 corporation tax due on the 1 Jan and I still don't have a final figure.

[Iron Condor]

Possible plan 'B' - act as intermediary for other contractors in same jam and do the filing for them?

And once you have their CH codes you can hijack their company.

Could be a very lucrative plan B.

[AtW]

Doing it online takes just a few minutes.

Indeed. Only then it takes (this years) now over a month for the Companies House to process it - apparently they've got huge backlog, 1 freaking month to check simple paper that used to take a few hours before

And who had that "brilliant" idea to start reducing time it takes to prepare annual accounts, ffs - they should have kept it AS IS, at least for small companies.

[Iron Condor]

Doing it online takes just a few minutes.

The codes arrive very quickly (within a few days) through the post too.

[OwlHoot]

Mine is now overdue too, despite me speaking to the accountant constantly over the past week.

What is the fine, and how does it work if there are two directors (albeit one has fled the country?).

<Sigh>

They've bumped up the fines a lot in the last year or so.

I don't think the first penalty is too bad, but in a matter of months the penalties end up literally in the thousands!

[norrahe]

mine "forgot" to submit mine as well, I always send them my end of year accounts at the end of my company year and tell them to submit, but they seemed to ignore that.

I got a reminder and the "you will be struck off letter", rang hem and shouted at them last week, they submitted the same day and will be paying my fine!

[eliquant]

On chasing the accountant yet AGAIN about the now very overdue Companies House Annual Return I finally get an answer:

"Well it costs you £15 more if we do it because we do it on paper because you have the codes to do it online."

They previously told me they will not to do it online because that is harder. So I have never requested any "codes".

It should have been done in October. I've even had the "We're going to strike you off" letter.

FFS, like I really need a fine right now.

So I'm going to do it myself, despite it being something I pay them for in the £1400 or so a year I pay.

sack your accountant now, my accountant reminded me twice in August/September and they offered to either do it online or on paper, its a fundamental part of a Limited company and its' accounts.

[MaryPoppins]

Mine is now overdue too, despite me speaking to the accountant constantly over the past week.

What is the fine, and how does it work if there are two directors (albeit one has fled the country?).

<Sigh>

[original PM]

accountants - know cost of everything and value of nothing!

[ratewhore]

Possible plan 'B' - Fook your accountant off and get a proper one!!

FTFY

[singhr]

Possible plan 'B' - act as intermediary for other contractors in same jam and do the filing for them?

[RichardCranium]

On chasing the accountant yet AGAIN about the now very overdue Companies House Annual Return I finally get an answer:

"Well it costs you £15 more if we do it because we do it on paper because you have the codes to do it online."

They previously told me they will not to do it online because that is harder. So I have never requested any "codes".

It should have been done in October. I've even had the "We're going to strike you off" letter.

FFS, like I really need a fine right now.

So I'm going to do it myself, despite it being something I pay them for in the £1400 or so a year I pay.