In reply to Scarab9:
> getting through on the phone....that's the tricky bit.
Yeah, get a good book to read or interesting website and try not to fall asleep whilst the numbing music and spiel drone on. Pick your time and use the 0300 number, its a lot cheaper than the old one.
I have been self employed since 1978 with no problems apart from two tax investigations just after sacking two accountants, or is that just a coincidence?
And the other year when they mixed up my details with somebody the same name and DOB, who had emigrated, insisted they owed me £5000+ and I did not need to file a return. What a faff sorting that out on the phone when the computer shows the IR the wrong data.
I reckon they are so overloaded with work, mistakes are far more common, especially with a bit of fat finger.
If you send a letter, use recorded delivery, all my second class post letters seem to have gone mysteriously astray.