My husband is self employed and I do his accounts for him every year
One year the Tax Office wrote and said that we had tried to defraud them by several thousand pounds that we had not declared and threatened quite dire consequences. Had an awful time, tried to phone them (has anyone else ever done that? Hours spent waiting in line on the phone, and then you get cut off) Tried writing recorded delivery letters, no response.
The problem had arisen as our tax year for my husband`s business actually ends in November, not April 5th so there was a discrepancy in payments between that time and April and they had not registered that I had put the date that the accounts went up to and had assumed it was April
After some really agonising weeks eventually quite a nice chap phoned, realised what had happened and said `Oh dear, now actually we are going to owe you money`. We then got a much larger rebate, but it was a super scary time.
18-Apr-2021 17:10:19