We have just been over to the Post Office to pay 31 January Self-Assessment. They refused to take payment. Apparently Post Office have a 'new rule' that they will not accept cheques for over £10,000.
Anyone else come across this? Would have been nice to be forewarned.
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Warning! Cannot pay SA tax at Post Office
Yes we have just found this out too!
Frustrating as we have tried to do this - but are now posting to HMRC - hope they will take the money as the clients have always relied on us - Paying over the interenet is not possible when you are paying large sums!
We are doing more for less as tax offices no longer collect at their local offices which are disappearing fast!
FRUSTRATED OVER WORKED
comical
they make it difficult to register and set up a business/HMRC account in the first place
now they make it more difficult to pay over tax due....
and they wonder why some people don't bother....
frustrating indeed.
Oh Portia
And here's me thinking you had given it all up. Is there a rehab centre for sarcasm
Looking Forward
I'm looking forward to the day that the Government want taxpayers to spend the money for them as well as collect it.
Giro system
is being amended for a lot of customers. I saw one statement last week that wouldn't accept cheques at all from Next.
Why couldn't you pay it at the bank instead?
PS
Btw I agree some people masquerading as accountants are in danger of giving the Luddites a good name
Paper payslip
And if you don't have a paper payslip, because HMRC did not send reminders in the post, you cannot pay in at a Post Office (or bank) anyhow. The payslips you can print off the HMRC website are only for sending cheques by post to Bradford.
I'm sure it's not John's fault
I had one client who asked if I could pay his tax bill and then include it on his invoice. He does live in Australia but I saw it has an additional unnecessary complication.
Another client took the figure I gave her a long time ago and sent me a cheque and totally ignored various transactions by HMRC in the mean time even though they sent her a revised amount payable by 31/01/15. She sent me a cheque payable to HMRC and I sent it to HMRC and told her she needed to pay more and she then asked me to attach the cheques together and sent me another cheque. I had to post that cheque as well.
With another client HMRC owed a client some money and refunded it and at the same time decided they couldn't redo her PAYE coding for a few years ago and asked for payment instead.
Post Office don't meant the new rule on their website and HMRC don't mention it on their website. I think both websites are the place to put any changes.
I looked on Thursday and it didn't mention it
Have just looked at HMRC site and it does warn about the £10,000 payment limit.
They must have changed it later.
Great rule
I think it's a great rule. Without it I'd not get the repeated enjoyment of chuckling over Portia's first post :)
i see from the Sunday Times
that a number of HMRC cheques have been intercepted and cashed at post offices!