A Bug's Life

To state the bleeding obvious - if you can file online then it really is so much easier. I write this in a state of bitterness - because I bought a trivial amount of shares in my previous (French) employers some years ago I have to declare the dividends under foreign income, which means that I fill in all the UK forms online, get the IR website to do all the sums, print it all out, copy everything onto a paper version, then do the sums to work out that I owe them an additional 20 quid for the dividends and subtract that from the amount they have calculated they owe me (it normally works that way round, it's one upside of maternity leave) then post it off. I feel quite bitter about people who could do it online and don't. Go on, get yourself an ID and password the instant you've sent your return off (and try not to lose it like I keep doing).