- Posted 8th April 2015
Top 10 Worst Excuses for Filing Tax Returns Late
When there is a late filing of tax returns, many people come up with absurd excuses only for avoiding paying a penalty. HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) receives lot of them which only becomes a cause of laughing stock. We have accumulated a list of top ten lists of worst excuses published by HMRC.
• My pet dog ate my tax return…and all the reminders
• I was up a mountain in Wales, and couldn’t find a post box or get an internet signal
• I fell in with the wrong crowd
• I’ve been travelling the world, trying to escape from a foreign intelligence agency
• Barack Obama is in charge of my finances
• I’ve been busy looking after a flock of escaped parrots and some fox cubs
• A work colleague borrowed my tax return, to photocopy it, and didn’t give it back
• I live in a camper van in a supermarket car park
• My girlfriend’s pregnant
• I was in Australia
Needless to say, these excuses are just ridiculous. That is why taxpayers like you should give out reasonable excuses for late filing of tax returns to HMRC. When you have reasonable excuse, you will have a strong evidence and can appeal to HMRC against penalties.