A couple of weeks ago the pink form arrived from the Church Commissioners. This is the form that heralds the arrival of the new tax year, which begins today. I loathe doing the tax – we both have to fill in the forms and I am not a Belbin completer-finisher so I often start it in time and am then frantic at the last deadline as I’ve not quite got it ready.
So here’s a great sketch about doing your tax:
[HT: Bishop Alan, who blogged Dan & Dan’s Daily Mail sketch]
I might ask the government to stop subsidising local councils in their production of pointless glossy brochures.
The Vicar's Wife 
I have to say that specialist clergy tax advice is something I personally think is worth paying for – it’s the piece of mind we get, and also the lack of late nights filling in the forms at the last minute. I don’t think that’s anything to do with whether or not you are a Belbin completer finisher, just a fact of life in the vicarage!
The first year my husband was ordained he decided we could do it all ourselves. And that was the last year we did that – just not worse the stress. I think he thought that because I’m an accountant it would all be straightforward – but it’s not!
Hi Rector’s wife. We’d been doing our own tax for ages before the Vicar was ordained, cos we’d lived overseas. So it didn’t seem much to keep on doing it. Clergy tax advice tempts me more and more tho’!
My letter from HMRC telling me to do this year’s forms is now glaring at me. I think I’ll go and shred it.