Pay and File zero liabilities

schmooschmoo

I'm about to complete filing my taxes with ROS and have hit a brick wall with what do if I've zero liabilities. There's plenty of notes at each stage but I've got to the point that one note states:

- If you enter a zero (0) value for the Payment Amount on the payment’s page a pop-up warning message will be transmitted advising you that the Payment Amount must be greater than zero and that you should go back to the Statement of Net Liabilities screen and indicate that you wish to file a Statement of Net Only without making a payment.

And then if I choose not to make a payment I get a threatening note saying:

You have chosen to File Return and Statement of Net Liabilities only without making a payment. Failure to pay tax by the due date is an offence that may lead to enforcement proceedings and additional costs (including interest charges).

There's no note saying "If you've zero liabilities, g'wan, you're grand". Which is making me hesitate with hitting ok.

Ideally I'd like some online way of saying I don't owe them anything as anything offline apparently means I've voided the ROS extended deadline.

schmooschmoo

I had zero liabilities last year and thought I was not to fill in any form of payment while filing. A few months later I got a letter from Revenue requesting a payment and a note suggesting that if I owed them nothing, to write zero and post it back (which I did).

It feels like the file and pay is changed slightly this year as I'm getting no clues as to what route to choose if my liabilities are zero. If I choose not to enter a payment, I get that threatening note (as well as hesitancy due to Revenue still feeling the need to write to me last year when I followed that path), and I'm not allowed to enter 0.00 as a payment amount on any payment forms.

barneystinson

schmooschmoo wrote: »

I'm about to complete filing my taxes with ROS and have hit a brick wall with what do if I've zero liabilities. There's plenty of notes at each stage but I've got to the point that one note states:

- If you enter a zero (0) value for the Payment Amount on the payment’s page a pop-up warning message will be transmitted advising you that the Payment Amount must be greater than zero and that you should go back to the Statement of Net Liabilities screen and indicate that you wish to file a Statement of Net Only without making a payment.

And then if I choose not to make a payment I get a threatening note saying:

You have chosen to File Return and Statement of Net Liabilities only without making a payment. Failure to pay tax by the due date is an offence that may lead to enforcement proceedings and additional costs (including interest charges).

There's no note saying "If you've zero liabilities, g'wan, you're grand". Which is making me hesitate with hitting ok.

Ideally I'd like some online way of saying I don't owe them anything as anything offline apparently means I've voided the ROS extended deadline.

G'wan you're grand!

The first warning is purely logical, you can't "Pay and File" if there's nothing to pay! (It'd be like walking into your bank and asking them to wire Zero Euros to another account! :pac:)

So you get routed back to "File Return Only" without payment, but just to cover their own arse, and so you can't say you weren't warned if you end up with a bill for interest further down the line, the system warns you that you should be paying whatever tax is due; but that obviously only applies if you actually owe tax... I suppose in case someone is mistakenly submitting a nil when they (somehow) didn't mean to etc...

schmooschmoo

Apologies for only seeing this now. Thanks for the reply - I went ahead with it anyway and all seems to be well so far.

True, there's logic to the first warning, but there's a good few people filing taxes who aren't 100% confident on it. A little bit of further clarity for these situations wouldn't go amiss - I'm unfortunately familiar with anything financial related feeling no need to clean up the ott formalities of financial language on forms that a joe soap may have to fill in.