The UK tax year
Why does the UK tax year begin on 6th April?
Easter Monday, 6th April 2015
Just over a week ago I posted a thick envelope into the letter box of the town hall. It contained my Swiss tax returns for the period 1st January to 31st December 2014. All of the documents it contained - bank statements and the like - are conveniently organised to cover the calendar year. Except financial documents from the UK. They cover what is known as the tax year, which begins on 6th April and ends the following year on 5th April.
This prompted me to ask the question: why does the UK tax year cover such apparently random period?
The answer to that question took me back to Julius Caesar (45 B.C), via Pope Gregory III (1582) and the year 1752.
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Just over a week ago I posted a thick envelope into the letter box of the town hall. It contained my Swiss tax returns for the period 1st January to 31st December 2014. All of the documents it contained - bank statements and the like - are conveniently organised to cover the calendar year. Except financial documents from the UK. They cover what is known as the tax year, which begins on 6th April and ends the following year on 5th April.
This prompted me to ask the question: why does the UK tax year cover such apparently random period?
The answer to that question took me back to Julius Caesar (45 B.C), via Pope Gregory III (1582) and the year 1752.
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If you are travelling from Rüti / Wolfhausen, drive past the Hombrechtikon place-name sign for about 300 metres and turn right into Tödistrasse, just before the Tobel bus stop.
Approaching from Hombrechtikon
If you are approaching from the centre of Hombrechtikon, follow the signs to Rüti. At the Tobel junction (the Methodist Church is on the left) turn left. Tödistrasse is the next turning on the left, just past the Tobel bus stop.
The entrance to our new flat is about 100 metres from the junction with Rütistrasse, on the left-hand side of the road.
The house number is number 9 and we are on the first floor.
There are a few visitor’s parking bays a short distance beyond the entrance, on the left.
There are a few visitor’s parking bays a short distance beyond the entrance, on the left.
Arriving by bus
If you arrive by bus from Bubikon, get off the bus at Tobel and follow Tödiweg until you get to Tödistrasse. Our house is on the right.