Paying the roofer for pointing and rendering the chimney and making good frost damage, paying the dentist to have a look in my gob, waiting for the burglar alarmist chappie to give me a ball crunching quote to replace and fit a new and posh bell box. Basically a happy bankrupt Thursday.
Pleased all you employed people are contributing to my pension, so I can enjoy the thrill of pulling notes out of my wallet to put back in circulation.
I received this email from āHMRCā today 
Refund Number: 430818891
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Issued On: 22/2/2018 11:18:33
Customer ID: 21121
Annual Tax Refund Confirmation
Dear john.wheeler
Your fiscal activity from the last year shows you still have to claim Ā£238.95 GBP.
Please click here in order to validate and submit your tax rebate information in order to claim it right now.
After you complete all the required information , please allow us up to 6 business days in order to validate your request
Description
Amount
Tax Refund Ā£238.95
Sub Total Ā£238.95
Payment Electronically
Total
$238.95
HM Revenue & Customs.
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Got stung hard and fast in my first years trading - having made, as has become traditional -
substantially less than fuck-all, and Sam having painstakingly done ALL the leg work - Ā£660 to type into some boxes onlineā¦
Never again - itās cheaper to cock-up occasionally and pay the finesā¦
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kwality !
VB
Wasting my time working, soooo pissed off with all the crap at the moment. I worked out I can survive 5 years not working and then retire officially.
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I got a rebate notice and it looked EXACTLY like a HMRC form asking for my bank details for them to deposit the money. I did not respond.
Our guy was friendly and helpful and did supply us with a complete record of exactly what heād done. But his fee was very close to that under very similar circumstances. OK, I guess he does have to run a town-centre office with someone to answer the phone, send out the bills etc etc.
Weāve found the .gov website pretty clear and easy to work with and the help facilities have been useful. If we were a bigger and more complex entity (and paying more tax) than we are then there might well be some scope for an on-the-ball accountant to save us a few quid. But itāll be a while, I think, before they could save us as much as they cost. And when Iām being grown up I sometimes feel that at least some of the tax I pay gets spent on the NHS and schools and people less fortunate than we are. My accountant, on the other hand, drives a very nice foreign car.
VB
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i had a phone call from hmrc the other day , saying they were taking out a lawsuit against me. for a moment my heart stopped !!! till i figured it was yet another scam
This definitely isnāt a scam but I still donāt believe it. Someone from HMRC is going to have to walk me through the numbers first.
Have you been IR35d on your latest cat herding?
today beginning to prepare a beautiful little house for a young couple. fabulous little place next to a railway but its fascinating watching all the different trains . the garden had some beautiful bushes with flowers on and overlooked by trees . very enjoyable preparing a place . mind you the last tenants were incredible . uncommonly conscientious and left the place very tidy
Nope even though theyāve changed the questions to try to drag more people into IR35 my company can offer more than one person to fulfil the work and it isnāt taking a long term substantive Exec job which they would argue should be on the payroll.
Rushing to get something sorted for our local Window Wanderland
Will post a picture at some point.
Still scratching my head but now with the benefit of money actually refunded in my bank.
thatās interesting? what are you going to do? Sit on the window ledge naked?
Did you not get the walkthrough?
Did you pay July payment on account by mistake
Thatās exactly what Iām checking now 
Might be well in the market for a pair of compact horn speakersā¦
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Thereās no such thing.
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That was last yearā¦ we are really busy this year so only enough time to fill one pane.
In memory of my M-i-L who passed away last month, I did a blackbird at dawn which echoes music chosen for her funeral service (Blackbird by The Beatles, and Morning Has Broken).
It looks much better at night when lit from inside the house. Crappy phone picture.
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