R&C might have made it clearer that the online service is the same one they have had for years. You can only use it if you have previously registered to use (they send you, by post, a PIN - your friend was done for before the system went down, if he'd not done anything before today)
Just back from handing mine in at a nearby office, thus avoiding joining the late filers at 10 p.m. this evening at the Woolwich local tax office.
Regards
Will
Tax, apparently, does need to be taxing, in yet another obtrusive and foolish way.
Anyone paying late should claim clemency: "it was just an administrative oversight".
Don't worry. This government would rather release a murderer to make a place for a tax evader in jail.
Adam Hart-Davis says that taxation would be simpler with a flat tax.
However, the simplest possible tax is a sales tax and it involves no personal infringements. All of our present taxes are in total equivalent to a general sales tax in any case, since it is the consumer that ultimately finances producers (workers) and we pay their dues every time we spend. And with our spent money, producers and workers pay, that is, forward on behalf of we consumers, taxes.
Nope. The simplest tax is a land-value tax. Your paying for the right to exclude others from your land. It would also increase house affordability.
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