Comments on: Self-Assessment http://www.dummies-for-destruction.co.uk/random/2009/10/self-assessment/ Dummies For Destruction - A drop of blood in a sea of piss Sat, 20 Mar 2010 20:52:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: lyle http://www.dummies-for-destruction.co.uk/random/2009/10/self-assessment/comment-page-1/#comment-165432 lyle Tue, 27 Oct 2009 09:38:03 +0000 http://www.dummies-for-destruction.co.uk/random/?p=6555#comment-165432 Fair enough, I didn't know that - as I said, I don't use the system. As for the postal service, I have to say I'm yet to have an issue with a Special Delivery item going astray. Never bother with Recorded, as it's not tracked at all, but Special Delivery seems to do the job. Fair enough, I didn’t know that – as I said, I don’t use the system.

As for the postal service, I have to say I’m yet to have an issue with a Special Delivery item going astray. Never bother with Recorded, as it’s not tracked at all, but Special Delivery seems to do the job.

]]> By: Blue Witch http://www.dummies-for-destruction.co.uk/random/2009/10/self-assessment/comment-page-1/#comment-165431 Blue Witch Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:36:51 +0000 http://www.dummies-for-destruction.co.uk/random/?p=6555#comment-165431 Yep, we take screenshots of the important pages, and print the whole lot as we complete it (as I do with anything I do online involving money or personal data). Paranoid? Maybe, but hoarding paper has won us back over ten grand in the past few years, and it's hard to break habits when the stakes are that high. It's much more likely they'll dispose of paper sent-in forms inappropriately when they've scanned them in (ie put them in the normal rubbish - as happened to 200-odd about three years ago) than that the main database will get hacked. It is the most cumbersome and ridiculous website though, and very easy to mis-enter something. And I hope the special delivery service is working, because I read somewhere official last week that they're not accepting the postal strike as an excuse, saying you can hand-deliver to your local tax office, but only until Monday 2nd (haven't checked up-to-date position though, with the strikes escalating). Yep, we take screenshots of the important pages, and print the whole lot as we complete it (as I do with anything I do online involving money or personal data).

Paranoid? Maybe, but hoarding paper has won us back over ten grand in the past few years, and it’s hard to break habits when the stakes are that high.

It’s much more likely they’ll dispose of paper sent-in forms inappropriately when they’ve scanned them in (ie put them in the normal rubbish – as happened to 200-odd about three years ago) than that the main database will get hacked.

It is the most cumbersome and ridiculous website though, and very easy to mis-enter something.

And I hope the special delivery service is working, because I read somewhere official last week that they’re not accepting the postal strike as an excuse, saying you can hand-deliver to your local tax office, but only until Monday 2nd (haven’t checked up-to-date position though, with the strikes escalating).

]]> By: Andy C http://www.dummies-for-destruction.co.uk/random/2009/10/self-assessment/comment-page-1/#comment-165430 Andy C Tue, 27 Oct 2009 07:55:57 +0000 http://www.dummies-for-destruction.co.uk/random/?p=6555#comment-165430 Eh ? Within 30 seconds of submitting online, you get a confirmation it is 'received'. That is somewhat better than entrusting it to the postal service - even the premium services where you paid to get it delivered. Eh ? Within 30 seconds of submitting online, you get a confirmation it is ‘received’.

That is somewhat better than entrusting it to the postal service – even the premium services where you paid to get it delivered.

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