The Revenue are after me again
Welcome to the Kafkaesque world of the Companies House WebFiling system .
Over the last three years I have been almost weekly threatened with prosecution, penalties, bailiffs on the door-step by Her Majesty's finest revenue officers. Despite having the original Moonraker's pond in my garden I don't try to outwit the Revenue. I don't owe them any real money quite legally so I fill in the forms and sit back.
I have finally discovered the flaw in the system, I think. I file my returns electronically, which are verified by a secret squirrel code rather than a facsimile signature, they print them out, they then notice the lack of a signature on the printed forms, they send them to me, I sign them and send them back. They then threaten prosecution as they haven't a valid return and they can't accept posted forms as they already have electronic versions, which lack a signature......
After three years of this my accountant grows fat on the fees he charges to try and sort it and I continue to fear the knock on the door.