IT problems force HMRC to extend tax deadline
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IT problems have forced Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs to extend the deadline for filing tax returns to midnight on Friday.
The self-assessment website has had problems all day and dozens of Reg readers have been unable to file their tax returns.
But if you've been struggling with the website all day then relax. The deadline has now been extended until midnight on Friday.
HMRC sent us the following statement:
HMRC’s Self Assessment on-line filing service has experienced technical difficulties this morning which has meant that some tax payers have experienced difficulties filing on-line. The system is now rapidly returning to normal levels of service. A record number of 3.6 million taxpayers have already successfully filed on-line with 104,000 filing today.
HMRC takes any disruption of service very seriously and to reflect this no-one who files electronically or by paper by midnight Friday 1 February will face a penalty.
We very much regret any inconvenience this may have caused.
No word yet on what caused the problems. ®
COMMENTS
Another day
Turns out they had to extend the deadline by another day, and now won't be fining people who submit by "midnight on the 2nd February".
Still not working
Its 7:45 and the service is still unavailable. Considering only 100'000 are still to file their tax return online this is yet another dreadful service from the Government. I bet they over paid for an under powered system as usual.
actually I think it was...
Accenture and IBM who set it up. But that's just speculation. Accenture claim it as theirs somewhere random on t'internet. Who knew?
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