Has anyone ever done their tax return online?

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  1. gaz

    gazredtyke Active Member

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    If so, was it easy? Considering doing my own but not 100% sure exactly what I can claim. Any advice would be greatly appreciated....
     
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    No hardest thing in the world. You should pay a friendly accountant a fortune to do it ! ;-)
     
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    Me Dad does his online, seems straightforward enough - he's retired mind.

    My accountant does mine - HMRC are quite unforgiving of mistakes unless you're Vodafone or ex Eton.
     
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    so what's it really like? Take it you're a friendly accountant then?
     
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    Piece of piss.
     
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    It depends on your circumstances. If you are employed with some benefits in kind then fairly easy. If you are self employed easy to do but also easy get wrong
     
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    Self employed mate
     
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    Again it depends on the complexity.
     
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    I've done it online,,,,,pretty straightforward, just time consuming
     
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    It really depends what sort of work you are doing and what you have done before
    If you are newly self employed - unless your tax affairs are very simple indeed I would suggest an accountant - not for the filling in of the form but for the advice about what you can offset against expenses etc

    If you have done tax returns on paper for years and now are wondering about doing it online then its no more difficult

    If your turnover is over £73K you will definitiely need an accountant and to register for VAT
     
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    I'm just starting to do all my mates after finding out some bird was charging them £150 each. Got one to practise on soon, shouldn't be too difficult having worked in the HMRC environment for over 10 years.
     
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    £77,000 for vat
     
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    Where is that from - I foolishly looked at the HMRC page http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/working/intro/selfemployed.htm

    where it definitely says 73K but I guess that could be for last year and just not updated - it wouldnt be the first time they had given wrong information.

    My wife had a classic a few of years ago when she phoned them up to check something and was given incorrect advice despite questioning it at the time. The following year her (new) accountant confirmed that the advice was wrong and advised to resubmit a correct tax return.

    HMRC then tried to charge her penalties despite agreeing that their helpline had given wrong advice saying that that was only guidence and she was responsible for ensuring her details was correct and any advice they gave wasnt binding. it took a lot of wasted time and effort to finally get them to agree to waive penalties and only charge interest on the underpayment.
     
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    £77k from 1st Apr 2012

    Try dealing with them on a day to day basis for about 350 clients.
     
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    Err No thanks

    but thanks for the clarification of the limit
     
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