Louise Herrington
@lou2sing
Chartered Accountant offering accounting services to performers and Self-Employed. Professional Singer - Opera, Musicals, Cabaret & Weddings.
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Woo hoo. 13 days to go. 15 People to start, 55 people to chase, and 49 people not sent anything in. So those 68 could all be finished by the end of this coming week and I can go to the spa for the last week of January.
So - I end the calendar year with 42 tax returns ready to start (ideally by Sunday), 98 that I am waiting for clients to reply to, and another 75 that have not sent me anything. That totals 215 in theory to do in January. The lowest figure for many years.
OK - been working mega hard. In the scheme of things, there are 279 returns left to do out of 668, but 95 people have not sent me anything yet. so 184 to crack on with - 83 available to start and 101 stuck with clients I may have to work christmas AGAIN !!!!!
Today is the day I would like to stick 2 fingers to my institute for complete inflexible rules, providing no support to the sole practitioner building a sizable practice and fail to provide any value for money. If you want us to comply with your ivory tower, give us the tools.
19 degrees outside, 27 degrees inside. Maybe I need an outside bed to sleep in..
Today I got 14 letters from HMRC with the 24/25 tax calc. All of them saying you removed class 2 NI, but I use the HMRC portal so there was no class 2 on it in the first place. You are wasting my time, your printing and postage budget nad you want to get MTD in place. Laugh.
8 letters from HMRC for the "revised tax calc". There is no re-calc of class 2 NI as no class 2 NI in the original calc. It is done on the agent account. Can I bill HMRC for wasting my time having to: open letter, check contents, scan letter, email client & tell them to ignore.
9 letters from HMRC today, all SATR calculations saying class 2 amended. Why, you have not done any amendment as the system calc is the same as your letter. What a waste of money for print & post and my time to scan them all to clients files, check them and tell them Ignore it.
Why are HMRC wasting money posting tax calculations to people that have done their returns, stating that a class 2 NI adjustment has been done. The tax calc is no different to what was filed on the HMRC portal. Filling up my shredding bin. @HMRCcustomers
So the letters from hmrc have started to go out re mtd it , and i have had calls already from non-clients. They don't belief it and think it is spam.
What a waste of money @HMRCcustomers . To be sent a letter as an agent saying I may have clients affected by mtd it. No poop sherlock. Could you not have printed some extra pages saying their name, utr, amount of se income and property income given you know who they are ..
Really not sure why I have kept a pile of supermarket receipts from 2022 and 2023. I guess 2024 was so bad, i had no time to put them in the shredder.
Will the spring statement inmarch be a mini budget and should I document changes happening from April 2025 if things get reversed or amended? Cash based accounts for self employed, director only payrolls, MTD IT.
New years resolution: bill for everything I do. People seem to think a 5min job in their eyes takes 5 mins. Err, frequently 30 mins or more especially if an hmrc system is involved. Certificate of residence, a1 form, reformatting accounts, visa letter. They are not part of LOE.
Every single person that sent me their tax stuff has been filed including the one that sent theirs to me 9:30pm Wednesday. All companies that provided me were done. Excuse me whilst I sleep before going onto vat returns. Am I really going to do this 5 times a year???????
26 left of which 19 sent no data, 5 chasing for review of numbers or extra info, one I sacked but she won't go away, one finally sent data this week with loads of wht certs missing.
Just an update - 112 to go and actually 34 not given me anything - forgot about the people that think they are clients but with unsigned paperwork. so to me, 78 to go in 10 days. I think there are about 12 to start and all the rest are chase chase chase.
136 left to complete with 31 people not giving me anything so they are a write off. 105 left to start/chase/complete in 14 days.
I am getting 2 hours if sleep and then another 2 hours of trying to get to sleep which does not count as sleep. If I am lucky, I may get another 2 hours after. Brain and body not co-operating. 175 is to go. Perhaps I should just stick with 2 hrs!!!
237 to go of which 70 might provided any data and with 25 days to go, will not get done. Flat out with 67 to get out for first review. Hmrc system is not filing correctly so returns stuck in a buffer that take 3 days to clear. In reality need to finish by 21st . Ha ha ha.
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