Can I find out what my accountant has submitted to HMRC on behalf of my company?
I'm pretty sure my accountant has made a mistake on the P35, P14 and P60 forms he submitted for my company. He says he has amended and resent them but is refusing to forward me the amended forms. I pay him to do all this. Is there anyway I can look up on the HMRC website to see what forms have been submitted on behalf of my company. At the moment, as my accountants, they are authorised to do this on behalf of my company, but I would like to see for myself what the HMRC has received from them.
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Answer 1 :
Change your Accountant now. You are paying them to do a job. your new Accountant has to have all the paperwork given to them and they will tell you what is happening.
Answer 2 :
You are legally resonsible for what your accountant has filed on yoour behalf, therefore you are entitled to see it. He sounds v imcompetant and my advice would be to threatened to report him to his governing body. You can't view this info online without the reference number and password, which I assume he has. You could ask HMRC for copies, but it might take a while.
Answer 3 :
Most employer's returns have to be filed online now. Do you know what reference and password Accountant has been using? If you don't know, you can't get in, website has to be secure for confidentiality purposes. If he has done this online, he may not have taken off copies. You can contact HMRC, but doubt you will get much information over the phone. Employers' returns are not done by local offices any more, specialist offices deal with it. I'm sure HMRC could send you a copy, but I don't know how long the correspondence backlog is. It is your return, you are entitled to know. Ever thought about changing your accountant? I wouldn't like to guarantee that if you do he will not be as dilatory in passing paperwork over to new accountant. I used to deal with a useless accountant when I was working, and if clients moved on, he wouldn't pass over the relevant paperwork.
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