HMRC impose tough new practices on businesses
April 23, 2008 by mike · Leave a Comment
Anyone who has recently migrated to the UK from North Korea, China or the Islamic Republic of Iran in order to start a new live of freedom and a business will feel like they never left home now that new powers and penalties have been granted to our incumbent government’s fighting hand; HM Revenue & Customs.
PAYE End of Year Filing (and unhelpful error messages)
If you operate a business in the UK you are required to file tax returns for that business by the 19th of May every year for the previous year. Obviously the earlier you get this done the better. I oversee all our accounts and I’ve been particularly busy over the past few weeks so this week was my first opportunity to try to get the returns done. Read more
Silly progress messages
Silly progress bars with almost comical user feedback seem synonymous with Microsoft Windows, but this has to be the craziest estimation I’ve ever seen. 16 months to apply compression to a 250GB hard disk drive on a fairly powerful Vista Ultimate SP1 machine: Read more
