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I am meeting a new client by Teams at 7pm to see if we can authorise me as an agent from her Government Gateway as the letter authorising me as an agent never arrived (issued it twice since January in theory) and I didn´t post the 64-8 form.
All of it to file a SA which will say she register as self employed in October 2020 but didn´t reach £1000 turnover.
Do not need to be the client's agent to file their return
Getting it right is all that matters
BUT need to know what HMRC have as an address if the auruthorisation code is going wrong
Nope. I have filed 5 today however for hand sitters for whom it was prepared several weeks ago but the little lambs couldn't bring themselves to sign and/or pay our bill
Not filed any last week I don't think.
Interesting, you don´t file until it is paid? I should change my strategy of invoicing after filing maybe.
I think you should. Surprised you've not had any issues with payment after filing has been done.
To be fair this strategy does depend on your client base. For instance, if I insisted on payment before submission I'd have no farming clients (and these make up 50% of my business). I agree that its a good idea and I do it for some, especially new clients but also the ones you know are going to be bad at paying. Once I get to trust them I'm usually happy to invoice after submission.
Interesting, you don´t file until it is paid? I should change my strategy of invoicing after filing maybe.
You are far too nice. Its a very simple way of getting paid. I invoice when I issue the return to the client, and don't file until I get the signature and the payment.
Its also administratively simple.
The question I have for you is, why would you do it differently? Its just creating potential problems for you that would otherwise solve themselves. I have had a couple of clients get sniffy about it, but the types who would happily not pay if they could. One of my late payments is from someone who is in heavy debt, including HMRC. He paid out of his salary which he would have been paid yesterday, by today its probably all back under the red line.
Waiting for one - it would be a 15 minute job - told them it must be in by Thursday, chased again this morning, still nothing .....
I won't drop everything to do it
One, my son's.
Up to now I had never done his tax for him as he always had his own accountants for his personal service company but now that he had become a straightforward P60 employee I agreed to give him a hand- I think I reminded him about missing information circa 50 times over two months.
Never work with children and animals.
Still have 10 no shows. Looks like they'll be paying 22 rates if I ever do hear from them!
Not sure, it is one of my few phrases of latin and I only know it because my father had two mugs that had Nunc est Bibendum on one side and Time for a Drink on the other side.
I don't do them myself but I did have an email from a client at 19:30 yesterday asking for advice on one she was about to submit for one of her clients. Good thing I can multitask and eat dinner, watch TV and give tax advice at the same time!
All submitted, except one for a journalist out in Kyiv reporting on the war. She didn't manage to get to e-approve in time. Hopefully HMRC will accept her late-filing penalty appeal....I think she's got a reasonable excuse.
Always interesting to see what everyone else was doing, I probably filed about 10 all told, with various associated reasons though the recurring theme is "head in sand" brigade. Most sadly are linked to accounts we do and decent fees as opposed to paper bag sole traders, so sacking them off would be shooting myself in the foot really. Perhaps I am just too nice
I did, and Monday too. I've still got some who have not delivered. And some I've had the records in but not had time to do because I've been working flat out. I wonder what the stats are. My expectation is the number unfiled at 28/02/2022 will be about twice the number unfiled at 28/02/2021. One figure I'd be interested in is the provisional returns filed. Does HMRC publish this?