Which profession is most likely to botch up a tax return?

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In a new survey by Bloomsbury Professional, 32.6% of accountants polled regarded builders as most likely to provide incorrect information.

Taxi drivers were regarded as the second most likely to provide incorrect information with 10.9%, with personal service company contractors, such as IT consultants, taking a close second at 8.7%.

Plumbers, high net worth investors and buy-to-let investors were also included in the list, respectively.

According to the survey, 4.3% of accountants said their fellow practitioners were most likely to provide incorrect information on tax returns, putting the profession on a par with buy-to-let investors and restaurateurs.

Which profession would you regard as most high risk? 

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By spidersong
27th Jan 2012 16:47

Three Little Words

Member of Parliament

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By George Attazder
27th Jan 2012 16:55

Spidersong!

It's absolutely scandalous that you should defame our bastions of society so readily and easily.

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By jamesbailey
27th Jan 2012 16:59

Dogs?

On the basis of That Case We Are Not Discussing, it would seem that dogs are the worst offenders.

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By Paul Scholes
27th Jan 2012 17:56

Anything/one with cash....

or people who treat tax as an overhead (or dogs)

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By thisistibi
27th Jan 2012 18:27

Statistically...

Dogs are the worse offenders, leave income off their tax return completely....

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By taxhound
28th Jan 2012 10:18

VAT payments

Put your quarterly VAT payment into the input VAT column in your accounting spreadsheet and then claim the whole lot back next quarter.

Simples.

That was a builder.

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By Ding Dong
28th Jan 2012 11:54

Accountants...............

"nuff said"

Or should I say "those pretending to be accountants"

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