P11D - the aftermath

P11D - the aftermath

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Phew! Countless hours down the road, now have all the P11D's in. Apart from a select few company cars, virtually no tax take for the treasury, almost everything being matched by a S.336 claim. Hey ho. The struggle for dispensations continues.

We had a mish-mash of methods for doing the P11Ds. Some of them were done online. Why can HMRC not produce some decent-looking P11D and P11D(b) forms from the information entered online? How many years has it been like this? And when oh WHEN are we going to be permitted to enter a "nil" P11D(b) online (one requiring no forms P11D)?

Some of them we did using the personal tax software that had a P11D bolt-on. Fine as long as you act for the employee personally.

And some of them we did using the employer's CD-ROM. Now here's the funny: When using the CD-ROM we were prompted do we want to just print the P11D? Or do we want to SAVE the P11D, AND print it? No-brainer, eh? Anybody out there elect NOT to save it? So we fill in all the details (via the database, bit of a pain, unnecessary complication but understandable if you just have your computer programmer hat on), and then what do we do? We SAVE it of course. Er, No. We go through the Save procedure, but then when retrieving the saved document in Acrobat Reader it contains no data. Got around it by printing to a PDF printer driver such as PDF995 or CutePDF etc, but duh!. I vaguely remember that this is a perennial problem. Another perennial problem, I should say.

End of rant.

Clint Westwood

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