Taxation: Last day to file on-line UK / Offshore Account disclosure and pay any tax due
The deadline for UK residents (excluding the famed non-dom class) to declare offshore accounts and pay any tax due is today. If they do it online. If they want to use paper, it's already too late.
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Taxation
"The only certain things in life are death and taxes" - Benjamin Franklin
"The taxpayer is liable to pay the tax due - and no more" - Lord Denning
Governments have no money except that which they raise by taxation. There is a constant tug-of-war between governments trying to raise taxes and taxpayers trying to reduce what they pay. Yet populations resent tax - and don't understand it.
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