Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

2015-01-29 Thread Gareth France
I was being given the number for some online help department. I can only repeat what I was told. On 29/01/15 12:32, Stuart Ward wrote: On 29 January 2015 at 11:28, Gareth France mailto:gareth.fra...@cliftonts.co.uk>> wrote: Already been there. The numbers they list just give me an 0845 t

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

2015-01-29 Thread Stuart Ward
On 29 January 2015 at 11:28, Gareth France wrote: > Already been there. The numbers they list just give me an 0845 that isn't > listed there and say they can't help. > https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/hm-revenue-customs/contact/corporation-tax-enquiries Lists only a 0300 number and a

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

2015-01-29 Thread Gareth France
Worth knowing. I use Grisbi at the moment but wasn't Ltd what I started using it. Perhaps time for a change? On 29/01/15 11:27, Simon Greenwood wrote: As it is I believe Gnucash now works with the web filing service -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubun

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

2015-01-29 Thread Gareth France
Already been there. The numbers they list just give me an 0845 that isn't listed there and say they can't help. On 29/01/15 11:23, Neil Greenwood wrote: www.saynoto0870.com has a list of alternatives to lots of 08xx numbers. Try that. -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/m

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

2015-01-29 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 29 January 2015 at 10:53, Gareth France wrote: > I have gotten along just fine since 2006 without having to touch a > non-Ubuntu system. If it is possible I like to keep it that way. It works > for me and every time I am forced to use a Windows system it hammers home > exactly why I stopped us

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

2015-01-29 Thread Neil Greenwood
On 29 January 2015 10:53:10 GMT+00:00, Gareth France wrote: >I have gotten along just fine since 2006 without having to touch a >non-Ubuntu system. If it is possible I like to keep it that way. It >works for me and every time I am forced to use a Windows system it >hammers home exactly why I

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

2015-01-29 Thread Gareth France
I have gotten along just fine since 2006 without having to touch a non-Ubuntu system. If it is possible I like to keep it that way. It works for me and every time I am forced to use a Windows system it hammers home exactly why I stopped using them. The version of Adobe Reader I'm using is work

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

2015-01-29 Thread Colin Law
On 29 January 2015 at 10:40, Gareth France wrote: > Nope, I refuse to start using other people's machines when there is nothing > wrong with mine. Besides this is not your average form. I imagine many hours > of banging my head against the screen to complete it. Not really something I > can do in

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

2015-01-29 Thread Gareth France
Nope, I refuse to start using other people's machines when there is nothing wrong with mine. Besides this is not your average form. I imagine many hours of banging my head against the screen to complete it. Not really something I can do in the library. To install Adobe Reader natively in Linux

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

2015-01-29 Thread Colin Law
On 29 January 2015 at 10:16, Gareth France wrote: > You seem to be missing the point. Look at the original post where I state > that instead of loading the form it loads an error message. > > If I were able to view the form in order to print it, I wouldn't need to > print it! Good point. Does it

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

2015-01-29 Thread Gareth France
You seem to be missing the point. Look at the original post where I state that instead of loading the form it loads an error message. If I were able to view the form in order to print it, I wouldn't need to print it! On 29/01/15 10:06, Colin Law wrote: Presumably you could just print the fo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

2015-01-29 Thread Colin Law
On 29 January 2015 at 09:45, Gareth France wrote: > Unfortunately this is Corporation Tax and there doesn't appear to be any > other way to do this. It's a ridiculous system, so badly designed. Turns out > I now need to wait a week for them to post out a 6 digit number to me before > I can even st

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

2015-01-29 Thread Gareth France
Unfortunately this is Corporation Tax and there doesn't appear to be any other way to do this. It's a ridiculous system, so badly designed. Turns out I now need to wait a week for them to post out a 6 digit number to me before I can even start! On 29/01/15 09:43, Simon Greenwood wrote: I bel

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

2015-01-29 Thread Simon Greenwood
On 29 January 2015 at 09:01, Colin Law wrote: > On 28 January 2015 at 23:01, Tony Pursell > wrote: > > I have just tested filling out a form using Evince (aka Document Viewer) > and > > it seems to work OK, but only if you download the form. If the PDF form > is > > just open in Firefox you can

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

2015-01-29 Thread Colin Law
On 28 January 2015 at 23:01, Tony Pursell wrote: > I have just tested filling out a form using Evince (aka Document Viewer) and > it seems to work OK, but only if you download the form. If the PDF form is > just open in Firefox you cannot fill out the form. > > The form I used was the N1 Claim Fo

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

2015-01-28 Thread Gareth France
The form I need to fill out does not work with Evince. On 28/01/15 23:01, Tony Pursell wrote: I have just tested filling out a form using Evince (aka Document Viewer) and it seems to work OK, but only if you download the form. If the PDF form is just open in Firefox you cannot fill out the form

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

2015-01-28 Thread Tony Pursell
I have just tested filling out a form using Evince (aka Document Viewer) and it seems to work OK, but only if you download the form. If the PDF form is just open in Firefox you cannot fill out the form. The form I used was the N1 Claim Form from http://hmctsformfinder.justice.gov.uk/HMCTS/GetForm

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

2015-01-28 Thread Gareth France
Afraid not. You can only get it by logging in as a company. Naturally I'm not publishing my login details :) Don't worry. I'll be having serious words soon. I got it going but ran into a brick wall right away as I have no idea what my authorisation key is, or indeed that I even had one. Remem

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

2015-01-28 Thread Colin Law
On 28 January 2015 at 21:24, Gareth France wrote: > Hooray for the OMGUbuntu website. I located their piece about the removal of > Adobe Reader for Linux which included a link to the last version of it. It > 'appears' to be working. > > Not exactly the ideal solution, it would be much nicer if bot

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

2015-01-28 Thread Colin Law
On 28 January 2015 at 21:15, Alan Pope wrote: > On 28 January 2015 at 20:54, Gareth France > wrote: >> Does anyone have any idea why this is not working correctly? Will I have to >> install a different viewer to do this? In this day and age we really should >> not have to re-jig our computers eve

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

2015-01-28 Thread Gareth France
Hooray for the OMGUbuntu website. I located their piece about the removal of Adobe Reader for Linux which included a link to the last version of it. It 'appears' to be working. Not exactly the ideal solution, it would be much nicer if both Adobe and HMRC played nicely with the community. On

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

2015-01-28 Thread Gareth France
Yes. You need Adobe Reader to fill the form in. Been that way for years. Ok, and where do I get that from when Adobe only list Windows, Mac and Android on their site? On 28/01/15 21:15, Alan Pope wrote: Yes. You need Adobe Reader to fill the form in. Been that way for years. -- ubuntu-uk@l

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

2015-01-28 Thread Alan Pope
On 28 January 2015 at 20:54, Gareth France wrote: > Does anyone have any idea why this is not working correctly? Will I have to > install a different viewer to do this? In this day and age we really should > not have to re-jig our computers every time we do something like this. Very > poor design.

Re: [ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

2015-01-28 Thread Colin Law
On 28 January 2015 at 20:54, Gareth France wrote: > I am currently about to prepare the first return for my limited company and > I'm finding the website you have to use for this is quite simply unusable. > It appears you have to download an interactive PDF and fill it out however > it simply load

[ubuntu-uk] Corporation tax submission issues

2015-01-28 Thread Gareth France
I am currently about to prepare the first return for my limited company and I'm finding the website you have to use for this is quite simply unusable. It appears you have to download an interactive PDF and fill it out however it simply loads the following message in the default reader: Please