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13 December 2006
Issue: 4088 / Categories: Forum & Feedback

As solicitors, we routinely complete tax returns, etc. for our deceased clients up to date of death. Increasingly, however, we are being obliged to duplicate the effort involved because HMRC are insisting on the completion of either a tax return when we have completed an R27, or an R27 when we have completed the tax return.

As solicitors we routinely complete tax returns etc. for our deceased clients up to date of death. Increasingly however we are being obliged to duplicate the effort involved because HMRC are insisting on the completion of either a tax return when we have completed an R27 or an R27 when we have completed the tax return. (In common with many firms we have software that allows us to produce one in-year.) In both scenarios the tax work is usually carried out at a point when it is likely that the administration will soon be finalised and the estate paid out so in addition to often having to send the paperwork to the executors for approval and signature possibly many months after things were as they believed finalised very often we are having to carry out work for no fee....

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