You Can't Help Some People!

System
System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
edited 12:08PM in AAT member discussion
I completed a Partnership Tax Return and two individual Tax Returns for a small business in September. They paid their bill and I left them to send off the Tax Returns (at their request).
They telephone me today to ask whether they need to be in by 31st January! :roll:

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  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:You Can't Help Some People!

    Now they tell me that they can't find one of the Tax Returns - yes now at 3.30 on the 31st January - so can I quickly do another one! I will finish sometime today.
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:You Can't Help Some People!

    :roll: i've not had any like that (one advantage of filing online :wink: ) but i have had 2 clients on the phone both saying 'you've worked my tax out wrong - I already pay my NI by direct debit, why are you telling me to pay more?' ...
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:You Can't Help Some People!
    Jodie R wrote:
    you've worked my tax out wrong - I already pay my NI by direct debit, why are you telling me to pay more? ...

    :roll:

    Clients', gotta love um!

    Regards

    Dean
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:You Can't Help Some People!

    You guys out there in Practice world are so brave.

    I seriously do not know how you deal with people like that.

    When I was in practice and they handed their carrier bags in - full of rubbish stuck together with goodness knows what - I just wanted to shred it all!

    Luckily I soon realised I was in the wrong job!

    Helen
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    Helen - I just think back to the time when I had a new client come over - he's just opened a garage & had done some work on my car & I'd agreed to do his books. We sat down & i was trying to explain the concept of 'profit' and he couldn't grasp it at all - the simplest of examples made no sense to him.
    When he was leaving I pointed out that the number plate he'd got me for my car was yellow but i needed a white one - he rolled his eyes at me and peeled back the yellow sticky-plastic off my lovely white number plate!! :lol:
    it's a good thing he's the one fixing cars & i'm the one doing the accounts!!
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
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    Jodie R wrote:
    Helen - I just think back to the time when I had a new client come over - he's just opened a garage & had done some work on my car & I'd agreed to do his books. We sat down & i was trying to explain the concept of 'profit' and he couldn't grasp it at all - the simplest of examples made no sense to him.
    When he was leaving I pointed out that the number plate he'd got me for my car was yellow but i needed a white one - he rolled his eyes at me and peeled back the yellow sticky-plastic off my lovely white number plate!! :lol:
    it's a good thing he's the one fixing cars & i'm the one doing the accounts!!

    Priceless! :lol:

    That is a lovely example :)

    Regards

    Dean
  • System
    System Posts: 100,534 🤖 Admin 🤖
    Re:You Can't Help Some People!

    Oh and I have another client, who despite being in business for over 10 years now, still can't understand why he has to pay tax - well he "does already pay PAYE every month and VAT"!

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