2. They don’t read their own returns
HMRC don’t read you return: it’s their policy. This is the official line: “Since the introduction of Self Assessment in 1997 there has been a policy to process now and check later This has been clear policy from the inception of SA.”
On the Self Assessment form there is an ‘additional information box’ which nobody reads. You have got to ask, why provide an ‘additional information’ box if it’s not read?
