Top excuses for missing tax deadline

Here are 2019’s most ridiculous expenses claims and late tax return excuses, as reported by Inland Revenue:

1. My mother-in-law is a witch and put a curse on me
2. I’m too short to reach the post box
3. I was just too busy – my first maid left, my second maid stole from me, and my third maid was very slow to learn
4. Our junior member of staff registered our client in Self Assessment by mistake because they were not wearing their glasses
5. My boiler had broken and my fingers were too cold to type