In their (HMRC's) defense (& not sure why I should defend them), they have millions of 'customers' and most of the information they hold has to come from those customers and the only way to process that info is from standard forms (returns).
I know somebody who used to work there and people...
As Westdene says, they can randomly issue forms an. How would they know somebody is only PAYE and doesn't have another income? So, they have the right to ask and, once a return has been requested it needs to be completed. In most of these cases it may well be a 'nil' return, which only takes a...
This should be for the period April 2010-April 2011. If you had to do a return in the previous year to that, and did not make it clear you were now PAYE and below the high earning limit, then a return would be expected for 10/11 and should have been submitted by end Jan 2012.
HMRC do tend to...