Which profession is most likely to botch up a tax return?
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?
Spidersong!
It's absolutely scandalous that you should defame our bastions of society so readily and easily.
Anything/one with cash....
or people who treat tax as an overhead (or dogs)
Statistically...
Dogs are the worse offenders, leave income off their tax return completely....
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.
Accountants...............
"nuff said"
Or should I say "those pretending to be accountants"
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