Over 580,000 self-employed workers and landlords have yet to sign up for HMRC's Making Tax Digital for Income Tax scheme, despite less than a month remaining before the August 7 registration deadline.
A Freedom of Information request has revealed that of the 864,000 people required to register for the scheme by April 6 this year, only 282,637 had signed up by May 20.
The figures, obtained by international accountancy firm Azets and confirmed by HMRC, show that around two-thirds of those required to join the new digital tax system had not yet registered when the data was compiled.
Good luck everyone!
It'll be an olympic level shit show.
ReplyDeleteThe IT system running on an elastic band and a couple of gerbils will flake if a tiny proportion of punters try and sign up on the deadline.. Much in the same way the BBC Licence Fee mass cancellation has demolished the BBC, HMRC needs punters to buy in and comply. They can send all the brown letters they want.
The Director of Communication will be getting his busy little beavers to put a PR spin on the whole thing, quietly delayed for lack of robustness or some other bullshit. Needing another decade to raise awareness by which point they'll be down the road.