*tears hair out in frustration*

Further to my posts about my tax return last week, I spent two evenings getting together everything that I could. Worked out how much I earned last tax year and how much I'd paid in commission and other "allowable" expenses. But then I couldn't finish the tax return because the contents of our bedroom are still piled up in the spare room from the DIY floor project, and the boxes of paperwork I needed to get to were on the other side of some large, heavy furniture items that I couldn't move on my own.

So we moved them last night, and I finished the tax return this evening. It took me about 2 hours to find precisely 4 pieces of paper: the end-of-tax-year financial statements for my National Savings account, my Natwest current account, my Natwest savings account and my BT share dividend. The total amount of interest I've received from those four accounts combined is less than £50. 2 hours of looking for £50 worth of information - gah! All my financial paperwork should, theoretically, be safely in a single filing box; but in practice, this last year's been awful for me with health stuff so I'm very disorganised. Getting that sorted is on my list of Things To Do when the upstairs floor is completely finished.

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I am, btw, very impressed that the tax return has the words "civil partner" all over the place: every time the word "spouse" is mentioned, it says "or civil partner" and every time "marriage" is mentioned it says "or civil partnership". Shame we couldn't go all the way and have a single entity for both opposite-sex and same-sex couples, but at least they are regarded as basically the same thing in law.

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Your Tax Return has been submitted and received by HM Revenue & Customs.

Yay! Now, Sims and bed.