Hi,
Did a bit of a spring clean over the weekend and came across a bundle of old (and what would have been at the time, important) documents - payslips, P60s, dividend counterfoils, tax credit certs for years gone by and things like the documentation received with my car insurance. How long do people hold on to these for? I would've thought maybe 4-6 years but then if you have your P60 for 2014, do you really need 52/12 different payslips too? If you have last years no claims bonus cert, do you need to keep every one that came before it?
Obviously birth certs, house deeds and the like are more important and should be retained indefinitely but what else is too important to be disposed of?
Did a bit of a spring clean over the weekend and came across a bundle of old (and what would have been at the time, important) documents - payslips, P60s, dividend counterfoils, tax credit certs for years gone by and things like the documentation received with my car insurance. How long do people hold on to these for? I would've thought maybe 4-6 years but then if you have your P60 for 2014, do you really need 52/12 different payslips too? If you have last years no claims bonus cert, do you need to keep every one that came before it?
Obviously birth certs, house deeds and the like are more important and should be retained indefinitely but what else is too important to be disposed of?