SA Tax Return filing rush problem solved

Get HMRCy to bring the deadline forward to 30th November. Think it through......

When do clients do anything? Only in Sept-Nov because they are BUSY BUSY people the rest of the year, and we have to FIT IN. Full details of my reasoning are below:-

Jan  getting over Christmas, check over skiing gear

Feb skiing

Mar Spring soon, leaf through some holiday brochures

Apr yo, can walk outside again, see if that Bistro has put some tables back outside

May dig out the barbie

Jun tennis

Jul Ibitha

Aug Zakanthos

Sep

Oct

Nov

Dec yo partytime

etc.....

As you can see three is a solid three month window where we have their un-divided attention, and indeed ours also.

This simple change would also mean i could enjoy Christmas, and not have to keep rushing in to the office to shuffle papers and cheer the troops on.

What's not to like?

HMRC - do they waste our money?

the answer of course is an emphatic YES !!
so many examples it's hard to know where to start.

elementary programming standards would ensure the amstrad doesn't send out missives demanding 10p -- costing loads more to generate and post. etc.

RTI? really teeeedius info gathering system?

RTI - real time information PAYE system

This is the system whereby HMRC receive online each time a payroll is run all the info about tax due etc.

So for 2013/14 if you are naughty and don't pay your PAYE on time, they write to you/ring you up in the evening/at weekends pestering you for the dough.
So no more financing your worthy enterprise through holding back on paye payments.

For 2014/15 even worse you will get £100 fine for every month you are late automatically, so either sack all your staff by 31.3.14 or obey !!

PS. if you do decide running a payroll is too much for you we have solutions - contact abell AT chartered.org

government creeping towards abolishing notional insurance

tech87 nino byebye tyme ???


Chatter on the web – we quote………..
“A full merger could take up to five years..” what!?!?!?!

Are civil servants and lawyers running this projectile? Erm….



My © 2011 MS draft spec is as follows:-

Project Description

Bin NIC


Target date

5/4/12

Method

§ Stick it in the next finance bill – “NIC is abolished”

§ Send email to all DSS/HMRC/the world




Other matters to resolve before the date of abolition

1. are there any other taxes/benefits that link to nic?

2. how much tax does nic bring in each year?

3. where can we touch up the tax-payers to replace this?

4. presentation issues:- we need to avoid increasing headline numbers as the plebs/daily mail will all scream/whine

5. solution is introduce a “state services tax” for all companies/self-empl to pay at rate of 12% on top of the standard rates, but listed sep. so we can pretend it is not part of main rate, but otherwise it runs on identical rules to main rate

6. And the other side we just up the quoted rates of 20/40/50 by 12% hopefully rounding them to 30/42/52 etc.

7. what about all the mickey mouse other nino rates? –bin them. Fishermen/funny types of pension schemes/married/unmarried women etc., just all those rates scrapped, brutal but it’s done.



It’s simples – if you keep the civil servants /lawyers out the design stage.

Or you can do it their way….
http://www.hm-treasury.gov.uk/speech_xst_110611.htm zzzzzzz…..

Join the debate here
http://www.accountingweb.co.uk/topic/tax/how-should-nic-income-tax-merger-work/513042



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VAT onslime regn

Vat onslime regn

This is almost impossible however there is a way……………..
1. you need a copy of the VAT certificate
2. regd. number of the company
3. address that APPEARS on VAT returns
4. a copy of the last VAT return as they want the Box 5 figure

Needless to say u only have to get one of the 5 secrets wrong, and regn fails….grrrr!

and you might need to do all this twaddle as well if not already online with HMRCy……
5. go to government gateway, and register the business as an organization
6. save the screen with the user id
7. annotate on it the password which is always to be ploka3018
8. use the secrets answers on attached sheet
9. wait for the toot from HMRC to arrive
10. then login again on govt portcullis and authorise aml as agent per attached sheet

UTR

Now that you have returned from that looong summer on the yacht, and are focusing on the more mundane things in life (or should be)...

Why not get your tax return out of the way before you slumber under the Christmas Tree? Unfortunately the massive problem stopping you responding to all those expensive adverts urging attending to this annual task, is often "what's my UTR malc?"
No UTR= can't file your tax return! NiNo is not enough anymore.

Sadly the ONLY way to get this is to call in to any tax enquiry office or telephone HMRC and ask them for it. Apparently these references are sooooo sensitive they cannot be uttered over our communications network in any form, so they will write to you with it. Security is such an issue that if they have written to you demanding a tax return they are not permitted to put your utr on the request, only your NiNo.

When you call them don't get side-tracked into a massive quiz "why do you want it, maybe you don't need to do a tax return"? etc. Just firmly tell them that "you know you want to do a tax return so hand the xxxx thing over without wasting more of my time".

who needs to do a tax return?
anyone who has been asked for one by hmrc. how do i know? - ring them up.....
all company directors
all higher-rate taxpayers
anyone with income from property/lettings
anyone with significant investment/dividend income
anyone with capital gains e.g. flogging your barclays shares for £600m. profit after 8 months
anyone with income from overseas, whether or not already taxed
anyone who has income the inland revenue don't know about