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HMRC wasting time for all new traders
A letter to be sent
Trader gets a call
Need to dropbox statements and proof of trading AND ID
ALL MY CLIENTS WILL CONSIDER THIS TO BE A SCAM
Because now I know, I would be confident that the scammers know
You could not make it up, cos nobody would believe it
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Your clients will phone you, asking you what to do.
For free of course.
But yes, overkill writ large.
This is so wrong. HMRC seem to be intent on making life as difficult as they can, for a very large number of taxpayers. Seriously, are they doing this in an effort to restrict the numbers claiming?
This is so wrong. HMRC seem to be intent on making life as difficult as they can, for a very large number of taxpayers. Seriously, are they doing this in an effort to restrict the numbers claiming?
They're making life a lot easier for me.
Lion - perhaps I'm being a bit dense, but how is HMRC making life a lot easier for you?
They've persuaded me into retirement a year earlier than I intended.
Geoff56 wrote:
Lion - perhaps I'm being a bit dense, but how is HMRC making life a lot easier for you?
They've persuaded me into retirement a year earlier than I intended.
Would it affect you? I've only got one it affects, and will be warning him to be ready. It'll be me uploading the docs I would imagine, unless we're not allowed
Would it affect you? I've only got one it affects, and will be warning him to be ready. It'll be me uploading the docs I would imagine, unless we're not allowed
It's not just SEISS, though, is it ? Most of my clients will have to up their game considerably in the next couple of years and I reckoned that they'd be better placed if the accountant who was acting for them in 2023 had set up their system. rather than a fella who'd retired in 2022.
Plus HMRC are beginning to annoy me.
"The faculty is also raising with HMRC what happens in a situation where, due to local postal delays, taxpayers receive a phone call before their letter arrives and does not comply"
It is a constant slight to the Royal Mail that they are held partly or fully responsible for the postal delays in correspondence between HMRC and taxpayers.
There are only postal delays between HMRC and the outside world, all other post goes just fine and arrives when it is meant to. Two days for the letter and two weeks in HMRC's internal system is the normal travel time and any mess ups of the sort alluded to will be HMRC's fault, I am sure.
Surely it would have been better for them to log in to their Government Gateway and upload the documents there? At the very least, log in to GG, and have the dropbox link there. Open to fraud and smacks of making it more difficult to claim.