I phoned the Inland Revenue again yesterday and got straight through to a very helpful, no-nonsense Scottish woman, who asked what number error I had, and immediately told me what to do to correct it. It was just a tiny bug in the online tax return submitting software, which was rounding figures up to whole numbers in every other box, but for some reason not in the ‘Other Capital Allowaces’ field. And, instead of rounding them up myself, I was rather lazily entering the exact figures since all the other boxes were rounding them up for me automatically.
Aren’t you thrilled to know the answer to this mysterious problem? Thought not. But, you know, I couldn’t leave it hanging there with no closure, could I?




