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to lack sympathy for anyone having difficulty with their tax forms today?

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cerviniasun · 31/01/2010 16:12

I mean, you left it to the last day possible and now are upset you can't figure something out on the "stupid form". Maybe if you'd sensibly allocated a bit more time to the task, incase you ran into difficulties, or done it at a time when there was a helpline available....?

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AnyFucker · 31/01/2010 16:14

is this "anyone" related to you, by any chance ?

GetDownYouWillFall · 31/01/2010 16:14

Adults and kids are just the same when it comes to deadlines. I bet they get a few "but the dog ate it..." as well

FlamingoBingo · 31/01/2010 16:16

yanbu

AgentZigzag · 31/01/2010 16:17

My sympathies, it must be so galling for you to have to put up with a world full of such fuckwits.

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cerviniasun · 31/01/2010 16:22

Zigzag - well, at least there are benefits to my lack of confidence - I would never assume I could do a tax form in such a short time without the possibility of something going wrong or needing help...

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MrsChemist · 31/01/2010 16:24

YANBU, DH was getting in a tither about getting fines and not being able to find invoices, and not having a password or something.

I didn't say anything because he would have gone mental, but I just wanted to say, 'well, I've been telling you to get it bloody done for months, you only have yourself to blame.'

His mum is an accountant so she did it for him on Friday. She will have told him off for not doing it sooner, so it saves me the trouble

AnyFucker · 31/01/2010 16:28

Gosh, AZZ, that was a litle unkind...

pagwatch · 31/01/2010 16:29

I have sympathy
I think some people delay it because they just put it off.
Other people delay it because they feel uncomfortable and find it daunting - that the language and system is condescending and because the 'tut tut, fgs - its not rocket science' tone of many of those operating the system makes them want to shoot themselves.

As it goes none of that applies to DH and I as we both worked in and around finaces/finacial services/accountancy/ law etc.
But matters financial seem to be populated by a small but nosiy percentage of anal types who don't recognise that it is not the joy and delight of most of the population to work their way through a financial document.

pagwatch · 31/01/2010 16:31

some of whom will have worked out my average use of the word 'financial' per line of text, and which percentage were spelt correctly.

( answers - very high and very low)

nappyzonecantrunfortoffee · 31/01/2010 16:33

Awww i have a tiny bit of sympathy as it must be daunting if your not in that mind set. I did mine about 3 weeks into April so it was all fresh in my mind and im quie looking forward to doing the next one

monkeyfacegrace · 31/01/2010 16:34

Its the people who dont get their paperwork to their accountant (ie my partner!) until Friday, then expect him to get the return in by tonight that piss me off! Ahh roll on tomorrow when I get my man back....

pagwatch · 31/01/2010 16:36

that is crap Monkey. Dumping stuff at the last minute is not on...

BelleDameSansMerci · 31/01/2010 16:36

YANBU but you are being a little unsympathetic... Really, who wants to do their tax return ever?

I owe £2000 this year too so my normal return on investment for using an accountant has failed quite spectacularly this time.

Casmama · 31/01/2010 16:40

OP are you a teacher by any chance?

Marne · 31/01/2010 16:42

Dh has just done his (last minute)

RubysReturn · 31/01/2010 16:45

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lovelycoffee · 31/01/2010 16:47

I did mine on Friday. Felt pathetically smug that I had done it with two days to spare! Its human nature, I always leave it to the last minute and then the Inland Revenue website starts crashing because of the number of f**kwits like me who left it so late...

feedtheyakandhewillscore · 31/01/2010 17:03

My sister is an accountant she made me do and pay for mine before Christmas

Hassled · 31/01/2010 17:10

We get our accountant to do it. And we give him the stuff in the Autumn - but mid-January every year I ring to see how he's doing and he says "Oh yes! the tax return!" as though he's only just remembered that tax returns exist. It entertains us every single year - and he is very cheap .

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Granny23 · 31/01/2010 17:15

I am amazed that you all seem to have DHs who tackle their own tax returns. It has been my job to do DH's ever since he became self employed because he 'can't do money sums' (although he is very adept at highly complex calculations such as taking materials off an architects plan or working out stresses on roof timbers). Although he has now been retired for 5 years he is still required to complete a tax return. To be honest ( but don't tell DH ) I find it fairly easy to do online. However, I have never had any recompense and little thanks from him for doing all his invoices and accounts + the tax return for years and years. This year there is a rebate of just over £60 but when I joked that the rebate was entirely due to my hard work, he offered to give me half! 'Mean' does not cover it - I think parsimonious (sp?) is the word I am looking for.

borderslass · 31/01/2010 17:15

its for self employed people riven I do DH's books and give them to the accountant to do the tax return then there's no mistakes or penalties.

Hassled · 31/01/2010 17:16

Riven - not if you're self-employed or earn over a certain amount.

smallwhitecat · 31/01/2010 17:17

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hf128219 · 31/01/2010 17:18

I did mine in about 10 minutes on Friday - it's a really easy process.