The European Cyber Resilience Act

Posted Sep 21, 2023 12:53 UTC (Thu) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: The European Cyber Resilience Act by kleptog
Parent article: The European Cyber Resilience Act

Every interaction I've had with the IRS in the USA has involved paper forms, which can either be sent by "certified international mail" (whatever local service turns into certified USPS mail in the USA - in my case, "International Tracked & Signed" from Royal Mail is the relevant service) or faxed. They will not accept e-mailed copies.

But my understanding of EU law is that EU governments can't do this - if they want paper copies of a form, they must be willing to print e-mailed versions out.

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The European Cyber Resilience Act

Posted Sep 25, 2023 16:20 UTC (Mon) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link] (2 responses)

The problem in Europe, is that all too often the government will no longer accept paper forms.

I (as of this year) now have to fill in a tax return. Most European citizens don't - PAYE has removed that burden. I signed up for paper forms (web forms far too often are the work of the devil aka junior idiots who can't think straight and design things that are a nightmare / impossible to complete properly).

So, when my first return was due, I got an email telling me "You need to fill in the form online, we've scrapped paper". ARGGHHHH. I DON'T WANT ONLINE!!!

Cheers,
Wol

The European Cyber Resilience Act

Posted Feb 13, 2024 17:40 UTC (Tue) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link] (1 responses)

I'm very late, but you should note (if you're still reading this) that HMRC's online tax reporting systems are *lovely*. They do nearly all the work for you, every box is linked to help telling you in pretty clear terms what the heck it's for (and if you still don't understand the terminology you can pop open another tab and google for it), you can usually skip nearly all the boxes and it's usually obvious which, most of them are auto-skipped for you based on the general properties of where you get income from and never appear at all, and if you make mistakes there is a series of summaries you are forced to see which make it obvious you screwed up. And you can go back and change it repeatedly until the filing deadline.

IMHO in all ways the online reporting system is far preferable to the physical forms iff you can use it at all (not everyone can, e.g. people with large foreign shareholdings can't, but they probably have people to do their taxes for them anyway).

(And, of course, the UK's tax filing physical forms are massively better than the horrifying nightmare the US forces everyone to use.)

The European Cyber Resilience Act

Posted Feb 13, 2024 19:47 UTC (Tue) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

The problem is HMRC now demands everyone file on line.

I recently had to sign up to filing taxes. I said I wanted paper, and even before I got my first set of forms, I got a message saying I had to file online :-(

And my experience was they were demanding all sorts of information (that I filled in with 0s), but the banks etc are supposed to give them that information. It's a complete pain ...

Cheers,
Wol