I look after my mother's financial affairs under Lasting Power of Attorney. We filed a tax return for her by post at the end of October 2010. In March 2011 we received a letter from HMRC saying that we were being fined as we had failed to file a return.
We checked bank records and found that the cheque that had been sent with the return had been cashed by HMRC at the beginning of November.
A week after the letter about the fine arrived we received the original tax return back from HMRC. They had rejected it as I had signed it and they had no record of my Lasting Power of Attorney. Unfortunately HMRC had incorrectly addressed this letter, by missing out the house number, and it had taken 5 months to arrive.
I have now sent Lasting Power of Attorney document by registered post, asked HMRC to correct their address record and appealed the fine.
We filed by post originally as we didn't have a UTR number to file online. Presumably if we had been able to file online we wouldn't have needed to register Power of Attorney with HMRC as no signature is required.
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