Tax compliance: much more than common sense

Tax compliance: much more than common sense

Keeping up to date with tax isn’t always as simple as it seems, as one taxpayer, Mr Hammant, recently found to his cost. The cost was in fact £1,200, and the expensive bill arose because Mr Hammant thought he had filed his Self Assessment tax return online, and didn’t discover that it hadn’t been submitted correctly until over a year later. Mr Hammant had signed up for paperless communication from HMRC, and not realising that anything had gone w…