Sulkyblue's Blog

I am a good citizen and pay all my taxes. This isn't a rant about the amount of tax I have to pay, or about what it's spent on. This is a rant about how the whole bloody thing is just a mess.

Up until this year I have just quite happily paid my taxes by PAYE and been 'happy' with just having a chunk of my paycheck disappear without ever really seeing it. Not Happy happy you understand, but content.

Then I decided to do some freelance work while unemployed and being a good little girl dutifully registered as self-employed. This would appear to have been my first mistake.

( extensive venting about the Inland Revenue )

I am so hugely frustrated by the whole thing. People don't move to Monaco to avoid tax, they do it to avoid the paperwork!

On the plus side I've just been offered some more freelance work, so at least the whole thing isn't just over a few hundred pounds.