They initially wrote to me before Christmas to tell me I no longer needed to submit a tax return. Then they wrote again to say I did. Then they wrote again to say I didn't. Now this morning, they've written to me again to say I do. The thing is, I'm a company director. They know this, and Companies House knows it. And that's one of the criteria which requires you to submit an annual tax return, no matter what.

HMRC has a real credibility problem as it is, and this sort of trivial stupidity isn't helping. Nor is the fact that a large chunk of their website - basically anything from the VAT / Customs & Excise side, by the look of it - still doesn't display properly in Firefox. Is it any wonder, as reported by Westmonster, that a majority of the British public doesn't want inter-departmental data sharing?