F*!?&$^g Tax Returns

[CountessDracula]

Ok all you smuggos who did yours months ago - I have until Friday as am going away on Saturday until the end of the month.

I can't find either of our forms or P60s or Bank statements for interest or even a bloody PEN!!!!!!

I HATE HATE HATE HATE filling out these forms.

Anyone else still to do theirs?

Em yes! And am guaranteed to make an ar*e of the calculation - again!!!

Oh I don't bother, let them do it!

Oh good can't find P11d either

Found forms though

So do you just send a cheque for a random amount and and let them get back to you?

Tried to register to do it on-line yesterday but it takes bloody days to get it organised.

P11d could be a bit of an issue now that you mention it. Maybe I better start tonight - well at least find the forms.

Is P11d the car one? You only need the magic figure - your personnel dept have a copy and should be able to give you the figure, or another photocopy.

Can you find March payslips? They have almost a whole year's pay and tax on.

If you can't find everything, could you either send incomplete forms in with a note ("I'll get back to you" ) or ring your tax office and ask for an extension?

Thanks JanH such sensible suggestions - I will just need to turn house upside down tonight and find the appropriate 'file' (read drawer) with the necessary bits & pieces. (BTW the P11d is for taxable benefits and so does include cars, healthcare, nursery vouchers etc.)

My real problem is I have 'unearned' income from a wee scabby flat I let out and just have to make it all up as I am so crap at keeping appropriate records. If I am ever challenged I am buggered.

Thanks for the ideas thou!

I just have one thing to say here: Tax Calc !
Especially if both you and DH end up doing tax returns.
It's a piece of software that asks you all the questions, tells you where to look for the information, does the calculations for you and then even prints out the forms (in colour) for you to send to the IR. Or, you can e-mail them if you'rev registered for the on-line service. It cost about £20, but IMHO is well worth it for the stress saved....

And, eeerrrm, have I done my tax return with it yet this year??? NO!

Must go - gotta do something!!

Echo Mo2 comments about Taxcalc - best 20 quid I've spent in ages. I end up doing both dp's and my tax forms (why is that I wonder?)

Still, I left it until last week before starting and even then it took ages cos the filing system (aka box in the corner) didn't have all the relevant info in it. Next year, I promise I'll be organised. Mind you, I said that last year and the year before........

If you do the online tax return it does all the calculations for you. I checked the "applying for child tax credit" option just to see what happened, since I didn't think we were entitled to any, and it worked out I was due £588! Hooray! Clicked the button to send my tax return in, and they put the money in my account a week later. The IR aren't all bad...

OK have managed to find P60, get P11d info from tax office and interest figures from internet banking (well most of them, will have to guess current accounts until they send the details through.)

I really hate all this grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

My sympathies - I put mine in the post today. Repeat after me - I WILL do mine earlier next year...

Mo2, LOL at "tells you where to look for the information," - that's just what Gomez needs! (Your P11d is in the top drawer of the dresser with the cutlery, your P60 is at the back of the kitchen drawer behind the bin liners, the bank statements are at the bottom of the toybox underneath the Brio and the details of the wee scabby flat are on a screwed up bit of paper behind the bookcase where it fell when you threw it at the cat.)

Zerub, did I tell you that after we got our lovely £500+ rebate the sods asked for most of it back?????

JanH, I agree! My share dividend info was going to somewhere I'd moved from in 1997 (don't tell DH). I had a complete mental block on this, then tried to do it on line and was told I couldn't as I was a civil servant (they don't want anyone to know what a pittance I earn, right?).

Sent the bloody thing off last week alogn with a rant about no-one saying that (un)civil servants can't do it on line and calculate my tax for me please as you would've had to if I could've done it online...oh sod it, I'm going to open another bottle of Chablis!

Jan, how on earth did you guess so correctly. Do I know you? Or more how do you know I am such a slattern?

Still not started thou. Thought perhaps I should finish Uni assigment first - it is due in tomorrow so no real panic, you know how it is better just show willing and all that.

And to cap it all off DD sent home from Nursery this afternoon.............

Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

was thinking of starting a thread on this - beaten to it as usual. CD i phoned my bank (lloyds) today and they gave me my interest figures over the phone - amazing as i thought it would take weeks to come through the post. My question was which tax software to use as i've got share income, but you've all answered my question before i've even asked it. Taxcalc it is !

Aaaaaargh!
Inspired by this threadly reminder I came home and settled down to start it - ONLY TO FIND THAT OUR CD rom DRIVE ISN'T WORKING!!! It won't read the disc.....

Just hope I can install it on my company laptop or I'm really in the s*&t....

JanH, yeah, we're not spending the money yet!

I've found out that we've lost half of this year's tax credit cos we didn't apply in time and they only backdate it for 3 months. DH's comments was the IR are allowed to change their minds about what we owe them for 7 years afterwards and get the money off us, and we're only allowed 3 months! Ho hum.

I've just done the corporation tax return for dh's (one-man) company - now that was fun!

What a pain.. and yes I did swear last year that I would do it earlier but I think having a baby is a good excuse!!

Can't find P-11d either but called in to work (on maternity leave) and apparantly I don't need one cos it's all in my monthly salary? Don't get that....

Hey, I even found my ID and password for the internet site from last year... jammy huh?

BR

Hi Bunnyrabbit - I think what your HR means is that you are taxed on your benefits in your salary each month but you still need the total taxable benefits bit for the IR return. They won't charge you tax on it again.

Only guessing but I 'forgot' to fill that bit in one year (well okay I couldn't find it and hoped it wouldn't matter as I had already been taxed IYSWIM) and got a whopping rebate back. Had enough sense to not cash the cheque and query - yip when they had done the calc (in the good old days I used to submit for the September deadline) for me they had only checked the info on the form and of course it appeared I had been taxed too much PAYE as there were no taxable benefits.

But just had a thought that your payslip may be more sophisticated then mine and show the benefit breakdown on it and perhaps you could pick the info up from there?

Hi Gomez,
Yep it does...
Problem is I now find out that, as our firm changed names, I have to put a breakdown for previous and present employment with different tax codes. What a pain in the a**e.

BR

Janh, the IR take the view that as you've had 9 months to fill in the form, "I can't find everything" is not a reasonable excuse!! Similarly not grounds for an extension.

Gomez, the only info taken into account is what is on the form. It is checked later & then if it is wrong you could find yourself having to explain why to an Inspector. (Technically, filling in your tax return wrong is fraud.. )

What exactly are the IR's rules re other civil servants? Civil servants have a different number when ringing about their tax credits (not published though, just need to know someone who know )

I presume it's to do with fraud prevention (?) but unless you work or know someone who works in IR why are other civil servants more of a risk? Or have I missed something obvious?

We were up till 2 am last night doing ours, only to give ourselves a massive bill to be paid this week!