heh
1337, isn't that so cool!
Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs will not fine anyone who got their tax filed over the weekend - even though they missed the official, extended deadline. A spokesman for HMRC told the Reg: "Anyone who was unable to file online because of some isolated problems Thursday and Friday will not be fined if they filed over the …
I'd like to see governments use this phrase in their non-apology apologies more often.
'The US Government today acknowledged that there had been difficulties in the reconstruction of Iraq. It confirmed that over 1 million Iraqi citizens had experienced "isolated problems" which resulted in them being shot or blown up.'
Yep, that's what I found, at 17:02 on Friday. Outstanding.
The HMRC "helpline" did at least help me locate an office with a known working letterbox. No, really. It was only 20 miles away.
Paris, because she could run HMRC's IT better than they could. She may suck, but at least you'd enjoy it...
I had been trying to do my SA over 3 days aout a week before the deadline. I would get part way through and would press "Continue" to be greeted by a failure screen. No amount of reloads would do it. I would have to go back and restart and double check that the pages I had done had taken as some of the data had changed in transit. So, either they knew about this or they didn't. If they knew then they lied, if they didn't then they are incompetent. Take your pick.