The taxman cometh….

A sympathy vote for all of you – and people in this business are more likely to be self-employed than most others – who have to file your tax returns by tomorrow. I have been up since 5am today sorting mine out so I can make a last-minute dash to my accountant this morning… but it’s finally done! Prevaricating is my natural default position: I only ever work to deadlines! And I’ve allowed this one very close to the wire. But just how much the tax office spends of our hard-earned tax pounds to remind us to pay them beggars belief: there have been full page ads in all of the national papers, billboard signs all over London (and I assume, the rest of the country) as well as radio ads throughout the day on Classic FM (my default radio station, since it can accompany me as I work without distracting me from it!) for the last few weeks, pricking my guilty conscience that I’d not done it yet every time I saw or heard them.