Don't get me started.
The theiving scumbags asked me to pay in July this year too.
In the past I've paid in January and that's been it.
Why I have to pay double this time they can't answer. :
They're getting £150 a month when I remember, but I don't know when it ends, and they've never shown any receipt of payment.
For this reason I'll make them sweat more.
I hate them with a passion, and I hope their cars catch fire and their pets get run over.
Squeaks...I dont know where to start with this one really.
I'm not absolutely positive about this but vaguely remember questioning my accountant about it. If your tax bill was under £500, you paid your tax bill once a year and didnt have to pay in advance. A little bit of your tax bill was a small amount on NI contributions as most of the NI contributions were taken via a seperate bill quarterly.
Until a year or so ago, we (self employed) paid £85.50 National Insurance Contributions every 3 months. If you noticed, this changed to £26 odd. Most people thought we were getting NI reduction. Wrong.
IR now deduct more of our NI in with our Tax. The effect this had was that many people who were under the £500 limit were now over it & were forced to pay not only that years Tax but half of the projected next years.
Many people struggled financially.
On year 2 of this though, your tax bill will be the remaining 50% and 50% of the next years.....so after the hard first year, you then go back to only paying 1 years tax in theory.
I'm rubbish at explaining things!
Hope that helped