Those of you who, like me, are self-employed have until the end of this month to get those tax returns in. My accountant has forwarded mine for signature along with my accounts for the tax year ending April 2006. It makes depressing reading. When the Inland Revenue owes me money, it’s time for a rethink.
After three years of self-employment, I’m starting to get the hint that contract training work in the rail industry is not particularly lucrative. Time, I think, to get a real job…
“Time, I think, to get a real job…”
Or failing that you could get a job in the public sector ;-).
I filed my self-assessment tax return online (as I have for the last four years) at the end of December. Last week I got a reminder in the post about the end of January deadline. Last night I got a phone call from HMRC to personally remind me to send in my tax return.
Sigh. Don’t these people talk to one another? The chap on the phone was fine – he apologised and said he was just working through a list. That list however must have been at least a month out of date. How many other pointless letters and phone calls have there been? How much time and money wasted? How many people thrown into a panic about their tax return going astray?
FWIW, they owed me money too (a very small amount), and I’ve already received the cheque.