1. It’s not easy

The official line of HMRC is that Self Assessment is easy. This is not true.

Not only is tax extremely complicated, but laws change every year. The truth is that tax is taxing, even if your return is small there are still vast areas of grey to get swallowed up in.

In January 2008 the face of HMRC Adam Hart-Davis admitted that the tax system was much too complicated, especially for the self-employed.

In response HMRC said, “We will not be using Mr Hart-Davis in any self-assessment advertising campaigns in the future.”

Read the story here and the BBC intervew is below.