Say It Softly And You Can Almost Hear The Angels Rejoice

Submitted by Kris on Wed, 2008-01-30 18:40.

From HM Revenue & Customs:

Dear Mr Jenkins,
We have looked at your Tax Return and do not propose you send returns in the future.

Free! Free from Government-designed websites that take 2 hours and 3 usernames to tell you "Error - please try again yesterday." Free from forms designed by M. C. Escher and peppered with ambiguous English that takes an hour of research to untangle. Free!

At least for now. [smile]

I'm not free. The Revenue have just told me that I owe them £591 in National Insurance. Bummer.

Submitted by Brian (not verified) on Fri, 2008-02-01 10:22.

hmm...must fill tax return in. Should probably do last year's as well. And pay that fine.....

Submitted by Lou (not verified) on Wed, 2008-02-06 19:52.

It is a bee-atch, isn't it? The first year I had to fill a tax return in, it took me 6 hours. The second time I gave up on government websites and it still took me a torturous couple of hours. You'd think they could make it easier. Could we sub-contract to the team that does Google-Documents?

Submitted by Kris on Thu, 2008-02-07 23:45.

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