Here is the UK Companies House list of the most bizarre excuses for late accounts:
- Goats ate my accounts
- I found my wife in the bath with my accountant
- Pirates stole my accounts
- We delivered the accounts to the betting office next door to Companies House
- A volcano erupted and prevented me from filing
- Slugs ate my accounts
- It was Valentine’s Day
- My company was more successful than I thought that it would be, so I was too busy to file
HMRC top late tax return clunker: “I couldn’t file my return on time as my wife has been seeing aliens and won’t let me enter the house.”
Rivalling that excuse was ‘my ex-wife left my tax return upstairs, but I suffer from vertigo and can’t go upstairs to retrieve it’.
If you want to see how boring accountants are have a look here