Self-assessment deadline looming!
Self-assessment deadline looming!
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dirty boy

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14,873 posts

240 months

Friday 30th January 2009
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Only got 3 returns left to do.

2 are bringing in their interest details this morning (husband/wife), so they're nice easy ones.

The other...

Well...

I ought to tell her to 'do one' but as it's my mum rolleyes

Eric Mc

125,884 posts

296 months

Friday 30th January 2009
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Final 14 submitted this morning smile

dirty boy

Original Poster:

14,873 posts

240 months

Friday 30th January 2009
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Eric Mc said:
Final 14 submitted this morning smile
Well done!

Another year completed, no doubt Her Majesty's government will impose even more deadlines making it even more difficult soon enough.


Piglet

6,250 posts

286 months

Friday 30th January 2009
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I submitted my own on Wednesday....pacified the accountant for holding up him submitting hubby's and then got a call this afternoon from our HR department advising that they have stuffed up our P11D's for 07/08 so the figures I've submitted are wrong rolleyes

john_p

7,073 posts

281 months

Friday 30th January 2009
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Piglet said:
I submitted my own on Wednesday....pacified the accountant for holding up him submitting hubby's and then got a call this afternoon from our HR department advising that they have stuffed up our P11D's for 07/08 so the figures I've submitted are wrong rolleyes
You can readmit it any time up to the deadline I think? Just in case you weren't aware.

spikeyhead

20,616 posts

228 months

Friday 30th January 2009
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I'm glad I got mine done in August. :wheresthesmuggitsmileywhenyouneedone:

Piglet

6,250 posts

286 months

Friday 30th January 2009
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john_p said:
Piglet said:
I submitted my own on Wednesday....pacified the accountant for holding up him submitting hubby's and then got a call this afternoon from our HR department advising that they have stuffed up our P11D's for 07/08 so the figures I've submitted are wrong rolleyes
You can readmit it any time up to the deadline I think? Just in case you weren't aware.
HR are hoping to get the new figures to me for Tuesday rolleyes

Tuna

19,930 posts

315 months

Friday 30th January 2009
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Rather than start a new thread with a dumb question...

I've done mine online, but the penultimate page (Any other information 1/2) asks about Service company income.

I'm a contractor, providing consultancy through my company which is owned by myself and my wife. We pay ourselves occasional dividends, and I pay myself a sensible salary through the standard PAYE system. Do I therefore put in the total of salary + dividend for that year? What does it mean / what are the consequences?

Eric Mc

125,884 posts

296 months

Friday 30th January 2009
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That was a new question for 07/08. It was to try and ascertain if IR35 was applicable. The problem is that the Revenue refuses to define what they mean by "service company" so no one really knew what the correct answer was.

Tuna

19,930 posts

315 months

Friday 30th January 2009
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Well, my contracts are IR-35 compliant, but I still don't understand whether I should put in a figure or not?

Inland revenue help said:
Please enter an amount if you have received any form of income (including employment income and dividends) during the year in question from a company through which you provided your services personally and of which you are a sole or joint shareholder.

Complete if the company’s income is derived:

* wholly or mainly from services provided to third parties by you personally, or
* wholly or mainly from services provided to third parties by you personally and your fellow shareholders and your shareholding is directly linked to the level of company profit you generate (which is, linked to the amount paid by third parties in respect of your personal services).

Do not enter anything if you are a shareholder and company officer of a company and the company’s income is derived:

* wholly or mainly from the provision of the services of company employees whose total income is treated as employment income, or
* derived wholly or mainly from the manufacture/provision of goods.
Do I read it as the bit in bold not applying because I paid myself a dividend as well as a normal salaried income? If so I assume I should put in a figure, which should be salary + dividend?

Or, does the whole thing hang on the difference between providing services 'personally' or through company employees? As my contracts are for services provided by my company (right of substitution etc.) does that mean I shouldn't fill in the figure? Argh.

You shouldn't need legal advice to fill this stuff in.

Edited by Tuna on Friday 30th January 23:31

Eric Mc

125,884 posts

296 months

Saturday 31st January 2009
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I think ANY individual providing any "services" through a company should have completed this section. In the end, if the Revenue were overwhelmed with positive answers, they wouldn't be able to ascertain those individuals they would be interested in simply because they would have been swamped.

Dominic H

3,289 posts

263 months

Saturday 31st January 2009
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spikeyhead said:
I'm glad I got mine done in August. :wheresthesmuggitsmileywhenyouneedone:
Going to ask the accountant to do my 08/09 in April, to save me running around at the end of next Jan...Somehow, I doubt this'll happen..

Eric Mc

125,884 posts

296 months

Sunday 1st February 2009
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It's virtually impossible to submit a tax return as early as that. There are too many factors involved in gathering together the necessary data - often dependent on 3rd parties such as employers or banks.
For instance, an employee may need to include P11d Benefit in Kind details on his return. The employer is not obliged to give this information until 6 July. So, no matter how keen the individual may be, he may have to wait for others to give him the information he needs.