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Here's one to visualise: those affected by the VATMOSS VATMESS are now being told that if they aren't a "business" they needn't trouble their pretty little heads about it all... So you can be a "trade" for IT purposes but not a "business" for VAT. Lovely! (see: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/revenue-and-customs-brief-4-2016-vat-moss-simplifications-for-businesses-trading-below-the-vat-registration-threshold/revenue-and-customs-brief-4-2016-vat-moss-simplifications-for-businesses-trading-below-the-vat-registration-threshold)
Reminds me of Gods final message to his creation from the fourth part of Douglas Adams trilogy:
"We apologise for the inconvenience"
or is it a reference to the special and general theories of Disaster Area tax returns?
Maybe this is HMRC trying to tap into youth culture... 'What are the kids into these days? My son Bernard tells me Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy is quite hip.'
Share and enjoy!
HMRC ought to take a lesson
HMRC ought to take a lesson from the Babel fish and appreciate that attempting to improve communication and understanding is probably not a good idea ;but would however be apt as the Babel fish is also leech like.
"Meanwhile, the poor Babel fish, by effectively removing all barriers to communication between different races and cultures, has caused more and bloodier wars than anything else in the history of creation
Simplification
Perhaps when the MPs can see the structure they'll understand the UK needs to simplify everything to the bare essential. Tax needs to be simpler for business, there need be fewer civil servants (and their overheads) so everything would be much more efficient!
In the same way that 42 was the single answer to life, the universe and everything, HMRC has a single answer to every tax question - U O US.