Stuart Bone's Blog - Posts Tagged "tax"

It's been a good writing week for me. Having amended a lot of the early part of new novel, CRIME & NOURISHMENT I've now moved it far enough along to feel I'm back on track. For a time writing it felt like a chore but I'm glad I persevered as it's now something I look forward to returning to each day.

The other bit of good news (well a lot of people wouldn't consider it good) was that I finally got my online tax account set up so I can fill in my tax return. I've been trying to sort it since the beginning of May! Turns out I already had a login from the last time I had to fill one in back in 2004! That was in the days of printed returns so I didn't expect to have an online login from then. I only found that out when I finally managed to speak to an actual human being at the tax office rather than that god-awful recorded voice. (She and I fell out on several occasions and once she actually hung up on me...honestly, a recorded voice put the phone done on me!)

I know I've got until next January to fill the return in but I'm a very organised person and like to get it done as soon as possible.

Although everything is online and supposedly simpler I still had to request my login Id by post and then, because the e mail address they had for me was out of date, I had to order a password by post too.

Added to that, once I started filling in the return I discovered I didn't have a copy of my bank account interest statement. I thought I'd be able to view one online but no; it was another phone call and a copy will be winging its way to me via the postal service in the next week.

So it's away with the finance and back with the creativity. Well for some, creativity and tax returns go hand in hand.

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