No longer self employed but still doing tax returns

[oldbanger]

I haven't been self employed for quite a while. I informed HMRC of this at the time, and made sure I did my last tax return early (August last year). I've still been picked to do one for this year, even though I thought they did that January.

This is a total pain as last year I declared my (minute) expenses from my PAYE job for the previous year in that tax return and had to cough up. Yet they still changed my tax code to take for it in this current year too - I did complain and this resulted in my tax code being changed back to normal for about a month. I expect they'd charge me twice this year too.

How do I get rid of this obligation?

(And yes I'm going to phone the tax office and ask them what's going on too, but this is bugging me now as I've just got in and opened my mail from yesterday)

[smartie]

if your earnings tske you into 40% then they are likley to want you to complete one in any case.

[Sam_68]

oldbanger said:

How do I get rid of this obligation?

You send back the tax return with 'no longer self employed, no income except PAYE', or words to that effect, scrawled across it, then get used to the fact that they'll adjust your tax code 3 or 4 times each year before they get it right.

If you do this for 5 years or so, they eventually take the hint and stop sending you returns.

Worked for me, anyway!