HMRC told me to do self-assessment

I’ve got to do one for myself and my late husband. Double the joy. 🙄

Why has it ruined your afternoon karmalady - isn’t it a good thing ?
In the next line you say you have done it online. Am I missing something ?

OH was asked to do one - it's taken him the best part of 3 days to complete it due to an uncertainty about Capital Gains. Luckily we are still in touch with our old accountant who was able to advise

I did the year 25/26 and re-applied to opt ot. They have today sent me a text to say that I am now opted out of self-assessment

Unfortunately I’ve had to do it for years. Once I got the Gateway Code and other bits from HMRC, parts are completed for me online by them, including my DWP. At least there’s as instant calculation and it doesn’t have to be paid until January ‘27. I’m hoping now that I’ve sold a property and declared a Capital Gain, that I can opt out too!

I've just done mine today. Absolutely loathe it.

My finances are deliberately simple. The online ID palaver , registration, log in, and pages and pages of multi choice questions, are torture based on Chinese whispers.

It's like those spy dramas where the dastardly suspect is interrogated for hours with the same questions over and over until he trips himself up . I confessed to being in UK do not farm, no secret lodgers in the attic, I got rich from a cold weather payment. HMRC tortured me until I folded and agreed to give them everything they wanted When they made me go to the bank to get the money my bank texted a dire warning the demand was probably criminal, "Tell nobody nuthink!"
Too late. If you don't tell, HMRC unleash the dogs of hell, online assistants who aren't even human.