Wow, I’m really quite shocked that I hadn’t heard about this.
I’ve only been VAT registered for a few months. Why didn’t everything that I signed up for back in the Summer say in big letters “This is only temporary, you’re going to have to do it all differently from next year”? I might efen have postposed registering to avoid the re-learning. (I’m voluntarily registered.)
Currently I type about 4 numbers into a web page each quarter. I would have thought that that web page is a front end to some HMRC back-end system. Now they want me to talk directly to that back-end system, right?
What a total pain. If it was something involving more data (e.g. PAYE for a medium-sized business) then I could see the possible benefit - but for just a handful of numbers every few months... why?
Biting the hand that feeds IT
