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P-11d form and letter-from-HR - no Self Assessment returns

What do I do with a P-11d, given that I don't file Self Assessment
returns?

I'm a normal employee, full-time, salaried, etc., with nothing special
about my tax affairs at all.  So much so that a few years ago the Inland
Revenue (as it was at the time) wrote me a nice letter telling me that I
was far too boring for them to bother with and would I please stop
sending them returns?  (Paraphrased slightly, of course)  Each year my
return had been one main short form, one employment page, one
interest-income page with f*** all interest on it, and that's that.  No
weird tax credits, odd-ball dividends, or anything like that.  90% of
the boxes remained empty.

This week I received, out of the blue, a P-11d from my employer (with
one item, employer-funded private medical insurance) together with a
letter from the HR department explaining that it was my responsibility
to tell HMRC about this benefit.  From them I was also able to find the
figures for the 08/09 tax year, which it is also my responsibility to
report to HMRC.

It's all a bit weird, though, because I've had the medical insurance for
several years at my current employer, and they didn't send me one of
these forms before.

OK, maybe it is my job, maybe it isn't, for both of the figures.  The
HMRC call centre seemed to agree with the HR department that it was, and
thanked me for the figures for next year.  However, for the 07/08 tax
year figure, they said that they needed for me to send them the original
of my P-60 and P-11d (advice: take copies before sending!) so they could
adjust tax codes etc.

So, two more questions... Why the originals?  (Or, indeed, is that even
necessary?)  And (given my previous experience with Self-Assessment
forms), where can I go (from an edge-of-the-City location between
Moorgate and Liverpool Street Tube stops) for the physically nearest tax
office to drop off whatever I have to send them?  (I've done this in the
past with SA forms so that delivery to the proper tax office is *their*
problem not mine, and so that I have a proper receipt from them for
them.)

I've looked on the HMRC and direct.gov websites, and can't actually find
addresses for tax offices other than for the "proper" ones for me and
for employers in and around the part of London where I work.  I found
pages where I could put in my employer's reference number and get my own
office, somewhere in Scotland, or I could put in my employer's post code
and get their office, somewhere else in Scotland, but I didn't find any
local ones near work.

Does anyone know where the nearest tax office to work is (nearest Tube
is Moorgate)?  And if anyone can shed any light on why this came out of
the blue like this, I'd be grateful.

Thanks in advance,
--
SteveR
(throw away the dustbin, send to stever@... instead)

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