HMRC website down - MTD problems to come?
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Looking forward to hearing what has actually gone wrong. Suspect it will take a freedom of information request.
Looking forward to hearing what has actually gone wrong. Suspect it will take a freedom of information request.
Looking forward to hearing what has actually gone wrong. Suspect it will take a freedom of information request.
Let me assist should there be miscomprehension regarding yiur comment . What you are probably saying is effectively;
Looking forward to hearing what has actually gone wrong. Suspect it will take a freedom of information request.
Not just HMRC. Yesterday spent time on phone with Co House trying to file DS01 between my rural broadband issues and the basic problems they were having on system. Worked in the end but wasted hours.
Then this morning my broadband (infinity2) said it was fine but I spent hours literally looking at a Page won't display message!!!
MTD panic/panic
I have been trying since friday pm to file S/A and been met will all of the website down please try again error log 404 and a whole array of different messages, I keep trying and its very time consuming, I have managed to get a Cis return through today, but its very annoying to say the least and the thoughts of MTD just fills me with dread, all of the HMRC websites say that availability is normal, I even logged a couple of calls over the weekend, and was still not told it is obviously quite a major issue and needs sorting, we are not in the position to levy fines against them as they will no doubt do against us as they will come out automatically
I struggled with the downtime as well. Tried to get a self assessment submitted. Even when the downtime finished it still would not submit so left another couple of days then it finally went through
It was equally a problem that PAYE returns for September could not be filed. Totally unacceptable, at least we have a 3-day easement from penalties at present but what about next year when automated late filing penalties will probably return, will we have to appeal each one separately ? equally the belated message on the PAYE service issues page (no deleted as it's all fixed but no apology or explanation) refers to 16/17 returns which is referring to SA not PAYE and was placed under an 'urgent' message about PAYE accounts that's been there a year with no update. The comms are simply woeful
On the same theme of HMRC not being digitally connected, I recently received the following email from a tax inspector requesting information for an ongoing enquiry :
'I would be grateful if you could help me to confirm my understanding of xxxxx. I will be working off site with little to no access to emails for the next week. If you have any questions in the meantime please feel free to email me.'
Just about sums up the whole MTD farce !
If 'I will be working off site with little to no access to emails for the next week' isn't HMRC speak for 'I will be on holiday next week but I want you to think I am on your case', we should all be worried that there is one rule for HMRC and another for the rest of us on this side of the MTD fence.
From Sunday until Tuesday morning could access most of HMRC site except anything to do with 2016/17 self-assessment. When I looked for any service issues or maintenance information there was nothing. I was getting an error message which suggested I needed to clean up my Windows registry.
See also https://www.accountingweb.co.uk/any-answers/ptp-api-returning-errors-hmr... and https://www.accountingweb.co.uk/any-answers/anyone-else-having-problems-.... EU claims and RTI have been in regular use for some years but HMRC still has unexpected down times for no reason: yes 29 September was a "deadline" day, but there are a couple dozen other such deadline days during the year (well 365 if we consider RTI) and there's no reason shy 29 September should be busier than others. After 4 years of RTI HMRC's systems are still not resilient enough. And HMRC wants to force MTD on us. HMRC wouldn't be able to cope.
no option to file 2017 CIS returns yesterday. might be the same today. going to look now. HMRC is awful
I actually managed to file a month ended 5th October 2017 CIS300 return (actually a nil declaration) this was done two days early on 4th October 2017.
Looking at online CIS300 filing on 5th and 6th October I saw that the drop down year box now only goes as far as 2016, the current year 2017 being now absent.
So this mysterious error on HMRC's part appears to have arisen late on 4th October or early on 5th October.
I see that today, 8th October, the option to file CIS300 returns dated 2017 is now present again.