tax
My tax affairs are not complicated. All my income is PAYE, I receive no interest from investments (thanks to an offset mortgage). I have a few P11D expenses, and a few charity payments: both just breaking into the 3-figure range. You would have thus thought that my tax return would be simple (it is) and that any corrections would be no more than a hundred quid or so.
No this time last year I had to find 3 grand in a hurry: 12 quid above the "we'll take it out your tax code limit. Thank god for offset mortgages. This year I got 2 grand back. How can accountants (whose sole purpose is to make sure the right amount if tax gets paid) be so bad at their jobs. You don't get train drivers dropping you off at Glasgow when they were meant to be taking you to Edinburgh. You don't get surgeons removing a hand when they were meant to be taking off a finger.
Admittedly quantlab did outsource their uk payroll to a bunch of lowest-bid monkeys, but by all accounts Google's not much better.
No this time last year I had to find 3 grand in a hurry: 12 quid above the "we'll take it out your tax code limit. Thank god for offset mortgages. This year I got 2 grand back. How can accountants (whose sole purpose is to make sure the right amount if tax gets paid) be so bad at their jobs. You don't get train drivers dropping you off at Glasgow when they were meant to be taking you to Edinburgh. You don't get surgeons removing a hand when they were meant to be taking off a finger.
Admittedly quantlab did outsource their uk payroll to a bunch of lowest-bid monkeys, but by all accounts Google's not much better.