Interesting conversation with Revenue & Customs

[RichUK]

I received a VAT return for one of my businesses this morning, this return gets sent to my house rather than my office. At home I have a seven month old puppy who has taken a liking to the delivery of the morning post.

By the time I had heard the post come through the door, finished my phone call and got downstairs, the puppy had eaten half of the return. Cue an embarrassed phone call to the helpline to ask for a duplicate return and that my phone call not be featured in their annual round up of their best recorded phone calls.

Surprisingly they were very nice about it, especially after the helpful lady had stopped laughing!

[Fidgits]

nice...

"how can i help"

"erm, the dog ate my tax return"

[StuMartin]

Hmm, I wonder if that could count as "failure to take reasonable care" under the new penalty structure in FA 2007... maybe Customs guidance will explain in due course

[Imran-vx]

StuMartin said:

Hmm, I wonder if that could count as "failure to take reasonable care" under the new penalty structure in FA 2007... maybe Customs guidance will explain in due course

Oh, does that work both ways????????

[Eric Mc]

No - they scrapped the Taxpayers Charter a while ago.

Edited by Eric Mc on Monday 13th August 10:22

[StuMartin]

Imran-vx said:

Oh, does that work both ways????????