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Tax. Self assessment

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karmalady Thu 26-Jun-25 11:42:12

I always thought I needed to do online self- assessment, there was a need in the past and I continued, year on year but this year I decided to ask the tax people. There was an online form via gov gateway

It took a while but I had the written answer I needed, I am very relieved. No more `pit of the stomach` feeling, no more self-assessment

It did say on that form that this would apply next year so I dutifully filled in the 24/25 assessment online

I must have made mistakes because I have just looked and they have done my assessment and the amount I need to pay by jan 31st 2026 is half what I assessed

Its a weight off me and is definitely worth asking

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IWasFirstClarinet Tue 14-Apr-26 14:14:37

OK. fumble fingers: "handy"

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Whiff Mon 20-Apr-26 10:22:24

My husband died in 2004. Since then got £29.56 per month since March 2004 from a private pension he had didn't have to any tax. All his other private pensions because he was 47 paid out lump sums its just this one pension that didn't.

I just have my state pension in my own right . Because of my husbands £29.56 I am now £53 over the limit for tax year 26/27 and now have to pay tax. They are going to take £6.60 per month out of the £29.56 . I have just got off the HMRC and told that is correct .

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Grantanow Thu 07-May-26 09:51:47

I moved to online self-assessment a couple of years ago with no regrets. It works well for me. Partner's is still on paper and likely to remain so given lack of online skill and problems understanding tax system.

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barmcake Thu 07-May-26 12:19:34

Boadicea

I am currently in a battle with HMRC:
I did my online self assessment and on Jan 30th made the payment to the account they told me to.
Ever since then I have been getting letters telling me I haven't paid and adding interest, but also saying if I had paid I could ignore the letter, which I did initially but as it had been going on for months I sent them a screenshot of my bank payment receipt (the money had gone out of my account on Jan 31st)
Then I got a threatening letter from a debt collection agency - at the same time as two identical letters from HMRC stating that they had received my payment of £XXX on Jan 31st from (last 4 digits of my bank account) and if I wanted it to be allocated to the correct department (not the one they told me to pay it into???) to give them the following information:
The amount (which they had just quoted), the account it was paid to and from (which they had just quoted), the date and reference number (which they had just quoted)!

So I phoned the HMRC (took about 20 minutes to get through) and actually got through to a sympathetic person who took the details and said he will make sure it is sorted for me.

We'll see!

Oh my God! how annoying.

I've got to do one and reading your post will make me take great care in ensuring that I keep detailed records of everything.

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