UK tax problem - sorted?

[bixy]

I thought I would post this in case anyone has a similar problem. With our first tax return in 2008 we sent in the forms France Individual for us both. These never arrived in the UK and in consequence we have been paying far too much UK tax. I spoke to a very nice man at HMRC who advised trying to get our local tax office in France to sign and stamp another copy of the forms and then send them direct to Nottingham instead of putting them through the French system. We filled in the forms and toddled off to the tax office where we were received by the rudest, most unhelpful person I have met in France. However, after much persuasion, he did the necessary and we sent the forms off to Nottingham. In the post today we received a tax refund, the first part [hopefully] of what we are due. This has only taken about six weeks - I had predicted six months. Anyway, it seems that this method does work, so if you are in a similar position you might want to try it.

Patrick