Funnily enough I have just been looking at a client with the same 'stroke of luck'. Filed on 5th Feb, marked as received on 31st Jan. As it happens, they had a refund due so no £100 (which, as it was our c*ck-up, we would have had to meet anyway).
Will take a screenshot though, as others have suggested, just for enquiry window tracking purposes.
It's about time this little trick was shut down - I suspect too many have cottoned on to it and it's being abused by people like the OP's client.
I've also used it, but maybe only a couple of times ever, and where the lateness has been more down to us than the client. Not in recent times though. Applying for an extension online for a genuine case isn't that difficult these days and is almost instantaneous.
I'm not surprised and I expect we'll see more of this HMRC-face-saving watering-down of MTDITSAXYZ.
They can never admit they're going to essentially scrap most of it - there are too many civil servants' careers pinned on it - but I find this sort of news encouraging.
If I were them I'd be looking at ways to improve the existing self-assessment system but just do it under the MTD banner.
Spot on! The standard pressed steel ones are so ... British Leyland. Mine came with the alloys fortunately (though I have added locking wheel nuts since!)
The final payment is optional though - one of the other options being to return the vehicle. My thinking is that if the value is expected to be significantly below the final payment then we'd assume he'd walk away or buy a new vehicle.
That being said, the 'return' option includes the right of the finance company to charge him for the reduction in value resulting from it not being in 'good condition' (hmmm) which further implies an effective transfer of economic ownership which points to your view (and would suit the client of course).
I was initially miffed that agents couldn't do the claims but quickly decided it wasn't such a bad thing. Sure, I've had a few asking early on if they'll be eligible, and a couple getting the wrong results initially from the system, but by and large they've been happily doing it themselves. If I'm honest HMRC's 'no agents' stance has been useful in this case, given the workload created by furlough claims and clients getting their records in earlier because 'things are quiet right now' (for them!).
(Not that I've been impressed with the quality of HMRC's reasons/excuses for excluding agents this time or on other occasions.)
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Funnily enough I have just been looking at a client with the same 'stroke of luck'. Filed on 5th Feb, marked as received on 31st Jan. As it happens, they had a refund due so no £100 (which, as it was our c*ck-up, we would have had to meet anyway).
Will take a screenshot though, as others have suggested, just for enquiry window tracking purposes.
It's about time this little trick was shut down - I suspect too many have cottoned on to it and it's being abused by people like the OP's client.
I've also used it, but maybe only a couple of times ever, and where the lateness has been more down to us than the client. Not in recent times though. Applying for an extension online for a genuine case isn't that difficult these days and is almost instantaneous.
I'm not surprised and I expect we'll see more of this HMRC-face-saving watering-down of MTDITSAXYZ.
They can never admit they're going to essentially scrap most of it - there are too many civil servants' careers pinned on it - but I find this sort of news encouraging.
If I were them I'd be looking at ways to improve the existing self-assessment system but just do it under the MTD banner.
I can't remember if our PI insurer has an advice line, but we use that which comes with our fee protection provider (currently Vantage).
Bah. Next thing you'll be telling me they don't call that cleaning stuff 'Jif' any more.
Same here.
Their Twitter bot is saying "There are no reported issues", so that's alright then.
Spot on! The standard pressed steel ones are so ... British Leyland. Mine came with the alloys fortunately (though I have added locking wheel nuts since!)
It does have a GMV of £10 less than the final payment - which smells like the option to purchase fee.
The final payment is optional though - one of the other options being to return the vehicle. My thinking is that if the value is expected to be significantly below the final payment then we'd assume he'd walk away or buy a new vehicle.
That being said, the 'return' option includes the right of the finance company to charge him for the reduction in value resulting from it not being in 'good condition' (hmmm) which further implies an effective transfer of economic ownership which points to your view (and would suit the client of course).
Nope.
I was initially miffed that agents couldn't do the claims but quickly decided it wasn't such a bad thing. Sure, I've had a few asking early on if they'll be eligible, and a couple getting the wrong results initially from the system, but by and large they've been happily doing it themselves. If I'm honest HMRC's 'no agents' stance has been useful in this case, given the workload created by furlough claims and clients getting their records in earlier because 'things are quiet right now' (for them!).
(Not that I've been impressed with the quality of HMRC's reasons/excuses for excluding agents this time or on other occasions.)