Using the HMRC Online tax return service
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Using the HMRC Online tax return service
Hi,
When I use the free HMRC online tool for submitting a tax return I get the following warning:
You cannot use this service if you are a non resident or non domiciled in the uk.
I am non domiciled and i have income in the UK and have just received a another request to submit a return.
Does anyone out there just ignore this warning and submit anyway? It seems to work. I understand that it is technically the wrong thing to do.
I have included a picture.
David.
When I use the free HMRC online tool for submitting a tax return I get the following warning:
You cannot use this service if you are a non resident or non domiciled in the uk.
I am non domiciled and i have income in the UK and have just received a another request to submit a return.
Does anyone out there just ignore this warning and submit anyway? It seems to work. I understand that it is technically the wrong thing to do.
I have included a picture.
David.
#2
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Re: Using the HMRC Online tax return service
Call me dumb, but if you are registered non dom by HMRC dont you think its a bit risky to do something illegal/specifically not allowed, on the HMRC website?
#3
I still dont believe it..
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Re: Using the HMRC Online tax return service
Im betting the real reason is that the online form does not cover all situations abroad or ask you to declare some more compkex tax info being a non dom. I also bet given the nature of the revenue that when you confirm you understand the rules of the form on completing it that you make yourself open to penalties / being charged with something.
#4
Re: Using the HMRC Online tax return service
Hi,
When I use the free HMRC online tool for submitting a tax return I get the following warning:
You cannot use this service if you are a non resident or non domiciled in the uk.
I am non domiciled and i have income in the UK and have just received a another request to submit a return.
Does anyone out there just ignore this warning and submit anyway? It seems to work. I understand that it is technically the wrong thing to do.
I have included a picture.
David.
When I use the free HMRC online tool for submitting a tax return I get the following warning:
You cannot use this service if you are a non resident or non domiciled in the uk.
I am non domiciled and i have income in the UK and have just received a another request to submit a return.
Does anyone out there just ignore this warning and submit anyway? It seems to work. I understand that it is technically the wrong thing to do.
I have included a picture.
David.
If I was you, I'd just submit it
#5
Re: Using the HMRC Online tax return service
Hi,
When I use the free HMRC online tool for submitting a tax return I get the following warning:
You cannot use this service if you are a non resident or non domiciled in the uk.
I am non domiciled and i have income in the UK and have just received a another request to submit a return.
Does anyone out there just ignore this warning and submit anyway? It seems to work. I understand that it is technically the wrong thing to do.
I have included a picture.
David.
When I use the free HMRC online tool for submitting a tax return I get the following warning:
You cannot use this service if you are a non resident or non domiciled in the uk.
I am non domiciled and i have income in the UK and have just received a another request to submit a return.
Does anyone out there just ignore this warning and submit anyway? It seems to work. I understand that it is technically the wrong thing to do.
I have included a picture.
David.
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Re: Using the HMRC Online tax return service
You can submit online if you use commercial software, rather than HMRC's own. Of course, you have to buy that....
#8
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Re: Using the HMRC Online tax return service
I submitted for years on the HMRC website, all the time with my address registered with them in Australia. It wasn't until I spoke to someone else that I realised I wasn't supposed to be doing that. This year I have used some software called TaxCalc which if anything was even easier than HMRC and still came out with a $0 return. Cost 25 pounds.
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Re: Using the HMRC Online tax return service
Hi,
When I use the free HMRC online tool for submitting a tax return I get the following warning:
You cannot use this service if you are a non resident or non domiciled in the uk.
I am non domiciled and i have income in the UK and have just received a another request to submit a return.
Does anyone out there just ignore this warning and submit anyway? It seems to work. I understand that it is technically the wrong thing to do.
I have included a picture.
David.
When I use the free HMRC online tool for submitting a tax return I get the following warning:
You cannot use this service if you are a non resident or non domiciled in the uk.
I am non domiciled and i have income in the UK and have just received a another request to submit a return.
Does anyone out there just ignore this warning and submit anyway? It seems to work. I understand that it is technically the wrong thing to do.
I have included a picture.
David.
#10
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Re: Using the HMRC Online tax return service
Yes, the issue is the inability to submit the Residence supplement through the HMRC web site.
Commercial tax software is needed, or appoint a tax accountant. In case of need: www.bdhtax.com
If you don't lodge the Residence supplement you can't claim non residence, and the UK personal allowance - the personal allowance has a value if you have (say) net rental income in the UK.
Best regards.
Commercial tax software is needed, or appoint a tax accountant. In case of need: www.bdhtax.com
If you don't lodge the Residence supplement you can't claim non residence, and the UK personal allowance - the personal allowance has a value if you have (say) net rental income in the UK.
Best regards.
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Re: Using the HMRC Online tax return service
HMRC are away with the fairies. We left the UK 12 years ago and sorted out all our tax affairs before we left. HMRC confirmed this in documentation that we still have. Last year, my wife got hit up for tax returns going back 9 years - all the time we'd lived here. We queried why and were told that they had to be done or she would be hit with penalties. I guess it was to do with properties we had owned over there and they were angling for some kind of bullshit CGT liability. As expected, there was no tax owing and she actually got back a few hundred quid (don't know how that worked)!
If I was you, I'd just submit it
If I was you, I'd just submit it
The NRCGT return is to be lodged within 30 days of a sale completing, whether or not you have any CGT to pay in the UK.
This is a new regime that came in on the 6th of April, 2015.
Best regards.
#12
Re: Using the HMRC Online tax return service
Yes, you have to watch the Non Resident CGT returns in the UK these days, if you sell a residential property in the UK as a non resident person.
The NRCGT return is to be lodged within 30 days of a sale completing, whether or not you have any CGT to pay in the UK.
This is a new regime that came in on the 6th of April, 2015.
Best regards.
The NRCGT return is to be lodged within 30 days of a sale completing, whether or not you have any CGT to pay in the UK.
This is a new regime that came in on the 6th of April, 2015.
Best regards.
Good to know
Thankfully we are now done with all that crap
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Re: Using the HMRC Online tax return service
I submitted for years on the HMRC website, all the time with my address registered with them in Australia. It wasn't until I spoke to someone else that I realised I wasn't supposed to be doing that. This year I have used some software called TaxCalc which if anything was even easier than HMRC and still came out with a $0 return. Cost 25 pounds.
For the expats who use the UK tax office's software, be careful because when I phoned up a rep said I definitly couldn't use that software because I am resident abroad. I haven't heard a rep explicitly say that before.
If anyone knows of any other simple software please let me know.
David.
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Re: Using the HMRC Online tax return service
Hi David.
Yours is a timely post given 31 October is usually the last date for delivery of a paper based UK tax return.
Here's an extract from the HMRC website (emboldening added): https://www.gov.uk/self-assessment-t...sending-return
You must use one of these options to send returns:
The deadline for paper forms is 31 October (or 31 January if you’re a trustee of a registered pension scheme or a non-resident company).
Best regards.
Yours is a timely post given 31 October is usually the last date for delivery of a paper based UK tax return.
Here's an extract from the HMRC website (emboldening added): https://www.gov.uk/self-assessment-t...sending-return
Using software or paper forms
You can choose to send any Self Assessment return using software or paper forms.You must use one of these options to send returns:
- for a partnership
- for a trust and estate
- if you get income from a trust
- if you lived abroad as a non-resident
- if you’re a Lloyd’s underwriter
The deadline for paper forms is 31 October (or 31 January if you’re a trustee of a registered pension scheme or a non-resident company).
Best regards.
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Re: Using the HMRC Online tax return service
https://taxfiler.co.uk/non-agent
Have a look at Taxfiler too.
Or feel able to contact me through bdh Tax.
Best regards.
Have a look at Taxfiler too.
Or feel able to contact me through bdh Tax.
Best regards.