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bugshaw at 12:23pm on 24/01/2006
bugshaw at 12:23pm on 24/01/2006Well, I'm getting started on my tax return. I have now collected all the pieces of paper relating to my finances into the same room. Next - sort by category (savings, employment, self-employment (I went from one to the other in the tax year 2004-05), rent-a-room, charitable donations) and tax year.
Then come the sums. I hate the sorting, but I love the counting! Unfortunately, the Inland Revenue do their best to obfuscate the process with the special "Calculation Guide" - there's no way to ignore the parts which aren't relevant, and you end up carrying zeroes all over the place. The flow must work well enough for a computer program, but the intermediate calculations are rarely meaningful to humans. Maybe in my Copious Spare Time™ I could write an alternative Tax Calculation Guide.
Do berate me in Comments to advise me that I should have done this earlier, or on-line, or whatever, but I doubt you'll be telling me anything I'm not already telling myself :-(
Then come the sums. I hate the sorting, but I love the counting! Unfortunately, the Inland Revenue do their best to obfuscate the process with the special "Calculation Guide" - there's no way to ignore the parts which aren't relevant, and you end up carrying zeroes all over the place. The flow must work well enough for a computer program, but the intermediate calculations are rarely meaningful to humans. Maybe in my Copious Spare Time™ I could write an alternative Tax Calculation Guide.
Do berate me in Comments to advise me that I should have done this earlier, or on-line, or whatever, but I doubt you'll be telling me anything I'm not already telling myself :-(
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