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https://www.gov.uk/government/publicati ... ax-digital

Seems we are going to have to get 'an IT system' to do our book-keeping on-line with HMRC watching our every move in real time

Anyone got any ideas about suitable systems, and their costs?...It sounds like a horrible pain in the arse to me.
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There are exemptions, one of them is age and where you live.
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I've been using free agent for years, nice n simple but I also use an accountant.

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Snaf MKII wrote: Thu Mar 11, 2021 9:06 pm There are exemptions, one of them is age and where you live.
So if I say I'm nearly dead and live in Cornwall will they let me off?

I just don't trust them with anything. Paid my tax up to date in mid Jan, and got a Final Demand for £1188 yesterday...not a word of what it's for, or how it was calculated and no sign of it on my account on-line!

I can only conclude that they make it up as they go along.
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probably a scam, Richard ... obviously you will not follow any links,
.. these scams are very professionally presented, these days, so i have heard ...
they probably got a bot looking for anyone with a word `tax` in any recent communications ??



recently i got loads of discount offers to porn sites ... no idea how they targeted me .. :D


the other side of the coin .. last year the AA put their investigation team (an obnoxious woman) onto me, demanding to know all about my `car accident` .. it was stated as `in england`, torquey and `my fault` ,,,...
i phoned up the real investigation team ... and, guess wot?/ ... the same obnoxious woman answered ... so i phoned the AA, saying i think i been scammed, and they said `yes`, i had a declared accident and the accident was being investigated :o

turns out they made a mistake ... twats !!!
upset me a lot.
will i renew this year ??? :? :roll: 8-)


then there was the Tailand love incident ... i just knew something was wrong wen i saw that huge lump in her knickers
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It arrived by post...complete with giro paying in slip! It may be genuine. They seem to employ a fair few incompetents.

Re scams: We were getting regular calls from a very foreign-sounding "AITCHEMMARSEY" demanding that we 'press one' or someone would come to arrest us!

Didn't press one, did tell him to do one!
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incompetence ..
seems to be a general UK thing, these days :roll:

Post Office imprisonments etc for `fiddling` the PO books .... a technical error. a computer app,
DVLA loss of driving entitlements a few years ago, completely denied of course,
Track and Trace app .. say no more¬
Loss of NHS data, .. selling of data,
Loss of prison/offenders details,
forgetting guns on trains,
leaving important national documents on trains,
Running down the NHS, then blaming the public .. who must then save it,
Selling off school playing fields,
..
,,

Trouble is .. if they got their silly claws into you .. you got to prove yourself out !!
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My Son in Law and also a mate both use 'quickbooks' for Vat & nonVat, self employed & Ltd Co accounts.
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Richard Simpson Mark II wrote: Thu Mar 11, 2021 9:11 pm I can only conclude that they make it up as they go along.
They definitely make it up.

I once received a cheque in the post for £2000 from HMRC, when I questioned it they told me I had overpaid, so I banked it. Six weeks later I got a demand for £2000, no explanation, no apology for a mistake, just a demand and 14 days to pay.....
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Elmer J Fudd wrote: Fri Mar 12, 2021 10:40 am
Richard Simpson Mark II wrote: Thu Mar 11, 2021 9:11 pm I can only conclude that they make it up as they go along.
They definitely make it up.

I once received a cheque in the post for £2000 from HMRC, when I questioned it they told me I had overpaid, so I banked it. Six weeks later I got a demand for £2000, no explanation, no apology for a mistake, just a demand and 14 days to pay.....
I've had similar...only the other way around.

An unexpected demand with menaces for several thousand £, which I was able to pay, but it pretty much wiped out my reserves of working capital, followed by a refund in a few months time.
They were unable to provide an explanation for either.
I was able to ride it out, but had my business been one involving a lot of expenditure it could have killed it. If that had happened, I'd have gone on benefits and cost them more. You sometimes wonder if they want any kind of small business to succeed.
Then there was the time I did my tax on line, and paid it before the Jan 31 deadline. They then tried to fine me for not submitting my tax return before the deadline. I pointed out they had been able to calculate the amount owed, and I had paid it, so it must have been submitted. They were unable to explain how they had calculated the sum owed correctly prior to the deadline if I hadn't submitted the return in time.
I sent the bloke a calendar with the dates I had done various things written in...but he still couldn't grasp the absurdity of it.
You'd think a tax man would realise that 'twenty-eight' comes before 'thirty-one' if you are counting...but no. I did wonder if I was dealing with Diane Abbott's son, but I think he was in prison at the time.
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