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Originally Posted by Grace'sDad  
sWe - no offence mate, I'm sure you mean well but YOU should try calling one of our tax offices. I'm not kidding - they employ absolute idiots/morons/imbeciles.
One "conversation" with one of our (many and varied) tax offices, and you'll soon see one of the reasons why the UK is in the mess it is! It has to be the most overly-complicated system in the whole world. Grumps will probably disagree but then he isn't human - he's a robot and enjoys all that stuff.
In the past 10 years, I must have spent at least one month on the phone to one form or other of the Inland Revenue, normally about their huge miscalculations on my company car tax (when I was in sales).
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Well... The system over here isn't exactly easy to navigate either, but the Swedish tax administration does a
fairly good job at providing info, and they hold free courses for people who either want to extended their knowledge of the red tape, or who want to start their own business, and so on. Helps enormously. The Swedish unemployment agency does the same (you don't have to be out of work to attend these courses), and there's a ****load of organizations who promote entrepreneurship, and hold courses on pretty much anything you could want or need to know about running businesses and dealing with the authorities.
That said, it's still an f-ing web of red tape, and it's very easy to get trapped. And the rules are merciless. If you're one day overdue with your tax payments, they'll send the collectors at you.
If it is as bad as you describe... Aren't there any books around? Can't you hire an accountant or something, or visit a tax consultant?
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