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Only 30 minutes - I have a month to fill the papers, but I try to get the mood for a 3 hour, online session, which at the end will provide me with an endless printout (about 20 pages), that I will have to deliver personally!!!
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Don't you have internet there? We do it all online, in fact they prefer not to send you any letters. And if you don't change anything you don't have to think about it, as they get the payments from you employer and the money/stocks from the bank. I rented out my house for some years, that took me about 3 mins extra to fill in online.
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That's the most 'funny' part of it! I do fill the form online, but at the end I have to fill a real paper form, and print the online form, and add all the mentioned documents I already scanned and attached to the online form, and put all this in a special (large size) envelop with my number on ,and go the the office and hand over the package...A freaking experience every year...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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On the plus side I guess It create jobs 
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Probably as there's a general election in a few months... 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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I thought you had to send all your money to Scotland nowadays.
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You know, I'd actually prefer it to end up in Scotland rather than where a lot of it actually ends up 
How do you know so much about swallows? Well, you have to know these things when you're a king, you know.
modified 31-Aug-21 21:01pm.
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It's all about how well you record things during the year.
Keep on top of that (and if you don't, you don't know who owes you what anyway) and it's relatively easy.
An adherent of the "big pile of paper" school of filing will be tearing his hair out... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I get a (modest) refund nearly every year. 
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I run a business. HMRC tends to like pillaging small business owners.
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While leaving the big ones well alone...
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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They have hired people that only deals with this, full time. Including lobbying to politicians.
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I guess your turnover is not large enough to exempt you from all taxes. 
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A couple of years ago, I had a VAT inspection. They happen every so often and this is the second one I have had in about 20 years.
In he comes and announces himself as a VAT fraud investigator. As I started to have a heart attack, he reassured me that he does the routine inspections as well and that's what this was. I told him to lead with that next time.
He was a nice bloke. His wife used to teach my daughters.
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I didn't know you were an MP... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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There's a glitch in the Matrix.
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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You mean all the numbers are in green? 
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Pete O'Hanlon wrote: This is the first year in 20 years of filling them in that they have ever owed me money.
Something must be wrong, somewhere. 
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Next year they'll decide that whatever the reason is that they owe you money does not apply to you and you'll have to pay it back with interest.
That's how it goes over in the Netherlands anyway 
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When you pay too much tax to the taxman who then gives you back your money with no interest why do most people think that is good?
I aim to pay less tax during the year so that the taxman has basically been giving me an interest free loan which I repay at the end of the year.
It has always puzzled me that people think getting a tax refund is a good thing.
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Wait until the taxman bills you for a tax you never owed in the first place and you battle it in court. The taxman is ordered to repay the money with interest. The next five years are spent in court battling over bills for the interest you received in the initial settlement... and the next... and the next... You get the picture.
The difficult may take time, the impossible a little longer.
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Hello all,
Some of you will remember my questions about a PSU, GPU and a motherboard that was not compatible (bios software issue) with the recently bought graphics card.
After upgrading the graphics card in my brother in law's computer he has to make some strange steps to be able to start the computer (like pressing F12 just before the BIOS post is shown, wait two minutes, keep ESC key pressed until the computer goes into PXE mode boot and then wait for it to fail; after that the computer boots up correctly...  ).
In order to avoid that, yesterday I went to the shop with his father with the firm intention to buy some thermal paste and a brand new motherboard just to avoid those initial steps.
Just to avoid compatibility issues I printed down all the PC specs and went to the shop.
Once there and showing the guy in the shop the motherboard specs he told me it was impossible to change that motherboard without changing all the other things too (processor and fan) because the form factor of the motherboard itself and the slot for the processor is not compatible with the normal ones as the one in my brother inlaw computer is an HP one which is not compatible with anything...
The motherboard my brother inlaw have in his computer is this one: http://support.hp.com/us-en/document/c02978278[^]
I guess this is a normal uATX motherboard with a normal CPU socket type LGA 1155... given those two specs, shouldn't any motherboard that have the same form factor and the same CPU slot work?
Let me put it simple: wouldn't this one be compatible? http://www.asrock.com/mb/Intel/H61M-VG4/[^]
What do you think? should that proposed model (asrock) work inside my inlaw computer keeping the current fan, processor and other components?
As always thank you in advance 
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Do not go to that shop anymore...
It is a standard miroATX with with LGA1155, so in the basic level there are thousand of boards can replace it...
However, theory alone and practice alone...You have to check all the existing parts you have in the old computer against the new motherboard...
1. CPU (not only socket, but clock speed too)
2. Memory
3. Any card (including your new graphics)
4. HDD/SSD
5. Any other hardware directly connected to the motherboard(?)
You have to check not only the basic physical support but energy and BIOS support too (like it is not enough that the board supports DDR3 but you actually have to check about symmetry and ECC/nonECC and so)
So the board you found should be a good replace but you have to check further...
Skipper: We'll fix it.
Alex: Fix it? How you gonna fix this?
Skipper: Grit, spit and a whole lotta duct tape.
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Thank you very much Kornfeld Eliyahu Peter!
That's what I thought but you know... this is not what I'm doing continuously (in fact the last time I fiddled with mother boards and processors was years ago) and after hearing that guy I decided to search a little bit more about it.
Thanks!
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They demanded to see all the books and records, etc. When I offered them a cup of tea they looked at me like I was trying to bribe or distract them somehow. 
Their whole attitude appeared to be "You are obviously a criminal and we are here to catch you at it". 
and the implied threat was that they would catch me next time!![Java | [Coffee]](https://www.codeproject.com/script/Forums/Images/coffee.gif)
and a biscuit and spent some time going over the books, etc. After a while he started "tut, tutting" and tapping away on his calculator - I started to get worried - he beckoned me over and said "You have an error here..." 
- I started to get upset as I had always tried to keep everything squeaky clean - "...yes, yes, this is wrong..." 
"...yes, you didn't claim enough for these home office expenses." - 
I felt like asking him if he could come and audit me again every year! 
