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You owe £0.20.
To avoid penalties, you must pay by 11:59pm on 31 January 2024.
Nemo wrote:Just checked my online account and got this message:You owe £0.20.
To avoid penalties, you must pay by 11:59pm on 31 January 2024.
Scary
Arborbridge wrote:Nemo wrote:Just checked my online account and got this message:
Scary
A hundred quid fine for owing 20p?!
Nemo wrote:Just checked my online account and got this message:You owe £0.20.
To avoid penalties, you must pay by 11:59pm on 31 January 2024.
Scary
Taxing times wrote:Once upon a time, when I was a young student, my then-girlfriend and I suffered the worst service I’ve ever encountered, lunching at a Cambridge restaurant. Instead of leaving a normal tip (shudder) or no tip, we left a tip of one halfpenny. We thought this gave entirely the right message. The other couple at the table (which we shared because the place was busy) fully agreed.
This year’s tax bill reminded me of that. Most tax in the UK is PAYE (pay as you earn), which means that your income, both earned and unearned, comes net of tax. In previous years I’ve had nothing to pay, but rather a small adjustment in my favour. This time, they decided I owed them 10p (that’s ten pence, not pounds). I just availed myself of their online payment facility to pay it by debit card.
I don’t know how much the government’s payment processor charges them per debit card transaction. But as a datapoint, my company gets charged a flat rate of 95p each time we accept a debitcard payment online (that’s different from creditcards, where we get charged a percentage). Big businesses get a much better rate than small ones, but I feel sure HMRC must be making a net loss on a payment as low as 10p.
Heh heh.
UncleEbenezer wrote:Nemo wrote:Just checked my online account and got this message:
Scary
Take satisfaction in my story from January (mumble) years ago ...Taxing times wrote:Once upon a time, when I was a young student, my then-girlfriend and I suffered the worst service I’ve ever encountered, lunching at a Cambridge restaurant. Instead of leaving a normal tip (shudder) or no tip, we left a tip of one halfpenny. We thought this gave entirely the right message. The other couple at the table (which we shared because the place was busy) fully agreed.
This year’s tax bill reminded me of that. Most tax in the UK is PAYE (pay as you earn), which means that your income, both earned and unearned, comes net of tax. In previous years I’ve had nothing to pay, but rather a small adjustment in my favour. This time, they decided I owed them 10p (that’s ten pence, not pounds). I just availed myself of their online payment facility to pay it by debit card.
I don’t know how much the government’s payment processor charges them per debit card transaction. But as a datapoint, my company gets charged a flat rate of 95p each time we accept a debitcard payment online (that’s different from creditcards, where we get charged a percentage). Big businesses get a much better rate than small ones, but I feel sure HMRC must be making a net loss on a payment as low as 10p.
Heh heh.
Charlottesquare wrote:I have a cheque here in the office that I intend some time to frame, it is from an electric company for something like 40p and there is no economic benefit paying it in to our business account. (An HMRC one would be even better)
Yes it is. 'Cos then it will be £100.20.
Lootman wrote:I can beat that. I once got a cheque for 3p from a phone company. I had it on my fridge door for a few years, secured by a "Hell is other people" fridge magnet.
I have not seen it recently and so assume my wife threw it out, thinking that I had made my point.
Tedx wrote:Ive just used biometric face and passport scanning to access my government gateway self assessment account
OooOoooh!
DrFfybes wrote:Tedx wrote:Ive just used biometric face and passport scanning to access my government gateway self assessment account
OooOoooh!
Ha - if someone wants to get into my GG to do my SA then they'll need me alive.
Not sure if this is a good thing or not.
Paul
Tedx wrote:DrFfybes wrote:
Ha - if someone wants to get into my GG to do my SA then they'll need me alive.
Not sure if this is a good thing or not.
Paul
If you use facial recognition to access your iPhone, then use your c*mface as your profile. At least then the thief will have to w*NK you off before he nicks your phone.
(Mr Boyle, again ...)
Rhyd6 wrote:Many years ago when I worked for Inland Revenue underpayments of £50 or less were ignored as it was deemed too costly to pursue collection. It would seem that the advent of Self Assessment and the use of computers have changed all that. Of course in my day, phones were actually answered, staff had to go on training courses, politness to taxpayers was mandatory and believe it or not we realised that we were there to help taxpayers if they were having problems.
R6