The way the UK’s HMRC handles VAT for non-UK parties is hilarious. I sell maybe £1000 into the UK annually, nearly all books, which have 0% VAT. HMRC will *not* email you filing reminders. Apparently, I missed an annual deadline, so they sent me this letter…allegedly in mid-March (just arrived), sent from…Malta. Because I was at an “unacceptable level” of nearly £9, they are making me file my £0 returns quarterly. This letter and will cost HMRC probably £100/year? (Now I have a reminder set.)
@glennf LOL. When we started out with the business here in Germany we did not think of filing a zero filing for the artists social insurance (because we didn’t use such services). They guessed that we had multiple millions of revenue and were asked to pay 25,000€. Which was more than the first year profit 😂 Luckily we could just file a correction and didn’t need to pay anything. But it’s not a letter you want to get 😃
@yatil Wow! Terrifying. I just love HMRC thinks £9 is somehow excessive. With no filters, they're wasting money. The threshold be…£100? They are throwing away taxpayer money, something I think the British bureaucracy is designed to do. That said, I have gotten letters from the IRS stating I owed $0.00. (They reclassified one thing to another thing with no tax effect.)
@glennf @yatil IRS kept sending me letters to the UK to verify my identity that would have a response deadline. Which was always expired by the time the letters arrived. Eventually they told me that the after 3 years I had no right to claim back the $3000+ my publisher had paid them on my behalf as the time limit to claim was past.
