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During my time as a teacher I heard a few excuses – some of them fantastic – about why homework wasn’t handed in on time. My favourite was the boy who handed in a blank maths exercise book. When I asked him where his homework was, he said he

I may be getting older, slower and greyer but there is at least one thing I am getting better at, and that is filing my self-assessment tax return. Three years ago I wrote a blog proclaiming my new resolution was to file my tax return sooner than 7 days before the deadline!

There have been a number of articles in the press recently regarding the problems in getting through to the HMRC  Tax helpline.  Apparently only 1 in 4 people carry on holding to try and get through to someone, with only 74% of callers managing to get through to speak to

Anyone who is in receipt of either a salary or pension income will at the end of each tax year receive a P60 from their employer or pension provider. Very often these innocuous looking documents are filed without so much as a second glance. The purpose of me writing