Accountant/inland revenue problems

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Kent
A friend of mine is in bother with inland revenue over tax.
They were employed, then became unemployed due to injury., then went with an agency and had work, but had to be self-employed.
It's got very complicated, accountant employed to sort it out after a fine.
Now just found out the accountant hasn't sorted it and the fine is now a lot more and growing daily.
How can this be sorted quickly?
Can a payment on account be made to stop the fine growing?
If anyone knows a good accountant on the Wiltshire, Devon, Dorset border please shout out as the current one has been worse than useless.
 

pgk

Member
+1 contact HMRC and explain the problem, ask them to let you have copies of everything they have had from your accountant, letters, phone calls, e mail's any contact so you know what you are up against. Keep up contact with them and stick to any deadlines agreed. If you are to miss a deadline let them know first and explain the reason. Good luck to him.
 
A friend of mine is in bother with inland revenue over tax.
They were employed, then became unemployed due to injury., then went with an agency and had work, but had to be self-employed.
It's got very complicated, accountant employed to sort it out after a fine.
Now just found out the accountant hasn't sorted it and the fine is now a lot more and growing daily.
How can this be sorted quickly?
Can a payment on account be made to stop the fine growing?
If anyone knows a good accountant on the Wiltshire, Devon, Dorset border please shout out as the current one has been worse than useless.
I would think the agency have a duty to stop tax at sorce and then he gets a rebate at year end ? Will depend I think agriculture has different rules to construction but agency may be liable here
 

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Location
Kent
I would think the agency have a duty to stop tax at sorce and then he gets a rebate at year end ? Will depend I think agriculture has different rules to construction but agency may be liable here
There's no problem in payment, they're quite happy to pay hugely over what's necessary if it stops the fine.
Simply a case of knowing how, they will be on the phone tomorrow.
 

Dry Rot

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Livestock Farmer
Thats why I do my own tax returns,, have used old mill for long term/iht planning etc

I've done mine since my accountant made a 25% error in adding up my bill. Guess in whose favour!

It was there, staring them in the face, a straight forward error in addition on the invoice! I'm only little but the tax office has always accepted my accounts and I've even been inspected. No problem!
 

rob1

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Location
wiltshire
I've done mine since my accountant made a 25% error in adding up my bill. Guess in whose favour!

It was there, staring them in the face, a straight forward error in addition on the invoice! I'm only little but the tax office has always accepted my accounts and I've even been inspected. No problem!
Yes the one I had made a basic error on cap allowances in 86 and caused an inspection, done it ever since, I have found HMRC to be helpful if I ever have a question.
 

Dry Rot

Member
Livestock Farmer
My inspection was prompted by a malicious complaint claiming that I was selling expensive gundogs for cash. (I wasn't!).

I was ordered to appear at my local tax office with my accounts which have been done on Quicken for the last 15 years. So I turned up with my lap top and egg box of receipts. My filing is on the archaeological system. "Do not disturb the layers".

A few weeks later the computer and egg box were returned. The inspector sighed a deep sigh and said, "We won't be inspecting YOU again!", then handed me some booklets on how to keep my records. All the random receipts had been carefully sorted by date and clipped together!

Which reminds me, I need another egg box.:)
 

Longlowdog

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Livestock Farmer
Location
Aberdeenshire
My accountants let the cleaners kid (it may have been an accountant in training...) do my vat over two years. At the end of that period they phoned up and told me that the slack jawed moron 'had not known to include the vat raised on your 'man hours' labouring invoices as a debit from your purchases vat refunds and by the way you now owe HMRC £3.5k due immediately as we have entered corrected accounts' .
I called them a few names when HMRC threatened me with bailiffs and they told me to calm down as they had let the retard go so everything was alright.
I know nothing about accounting, not one thing, it's why I pay them. They are as far as I'm concerned a bunch of crooks making up stories and figures and acting in their own unchecked interests rather than mine. They nearly bust me and there was nothing I could do and I still got their bill at the end of the quarter.
 

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