It's been taxing

Just touching base to let you know that I have battled my resistance to all things numerical. Yes, I am finally doing my first set of accounts.

Urgh.

More a words than a numbers kinda gal, I haven't really kept any accounts to speak of since I started freelancing last September. Which makes it rather tricky to do my tax return. No, not tricky...

BORING.

So, I have just chucked all my receipts away (only those for the small stuff) which has saved me hours, if not days, of being a spreadsheet slave.

I figured it isn't really worth the £100 off my tax bill. I'd rather keep my forehead wrinkle-free thanks. How many stamps do I actually buy, for godsake?

My head is whirling with a year's worth of rent-and-utlitiles-divided-by-number-of-rooms-in-my-house-then-estimate-percentage-of-use-for-business-seeing-as-its-my-lounge-as-well-as-my-office-plus-50%-of-mobile-bills-the-same-with-landline-but-remember-to-omit-the-line-rental...I could go on.

So, because I am otherwise engaged you may never get to know how fabulous my weekend was.

You may not find out about our trip to the Science Museum where Els played with my Spanish friend's kids and their French-speaking cousin. Where I discovered the tag-game 'It' is a pan-European phenomenon.

You may even miss out on what I discovered when I took part in my friend's pre-pilot run-through of her Birth Trauma Recovery Workshop. The trial workshop where I learnt NLP tools that can magic away any unhappy memory or unwanted feeling...including cravings for food/booze/ciggies.

I wouldn't be so mean. I will definitely post about that soon. Promise. I just need to placate HMRC first. I hope you don't mind.

This post was written by Anna Colette, a Thames Valley Mum of one who is getting married in March. You can read more at her blog, Part Mummy, Part Me.

Photo credit: Koen Verekeen

Comments

[Susanna (A Modern Mother)]

Hang in there!

[Coding Mamma]

I feel for you. We pay an accountant to do our actual tax returns, but I always put off going through everything filing it all together and so on. Every year I say I'm going to get it all ready at the start of May, and every year I get a call or email from the accountant in December or January asking if we still want them to do our tax returns. Anything to do with money makes my head hurt. I could sit and do pages of sums quite happily, but as soon as you stick a pound sign in front of the numbers, I lose the ability to add 2 and 2.

Good luck and hope you get it all finished in time!

[Natalie]

This was one of the first things I read this morning and it's reminded me that I need to pull my finger out and finish my first self-assessment. Fortunately, because I became self-employed on 31st Jan, I only have 2 months to file... Jeez you'd think I'd have done it by now! Good luck :-)