I submitted mine in plenty of time but my plan to only actually pay at the last minute was somewhat foiled by my not appreciating I was actually due a refund as the calculated bill when I submitted wasn’t taking previous payments on account into , er, account 🙂
never understood why people were happy with a tax refund when it often signifies your payments on account were too much becuase you earned less than the previous year.
Always happier to get money back than pay it out. Its like finding money in the pocket of your winter coat when you put it on after the summer. You know its just your money but its still nice. Although thats tainted by my payments on account now probably being too low for next and this time next year is probably going to smart a bit. I’m regular freelance rather than CIS but my work tends to come in big chunks – probably half of my turn over comes from two or three big undertakings and the biggest ones always seem to fall around march/april and depending on how those chunks fall one side of the other of a year end then all the expenditure is in one return and the income is in another. It doesn’t make either of those years a good or bad one but it means I tend to pendulum between big bills one year and (never quite as) big refunds the next.