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- Deadline for telling HMRC you need to complete a return
- Deadline for submitting a paper return
- Deadline for submitting an online return
- Deadlines for paying tax you owe
- If you do not know your profit for the whole tax year
- When the deadline is different
- 2021 to 2022 tax year and earlier
You must tell HMRC by 5 October if you need to complete a tax return and have not sent one before.
You can tell HMRC by registering for Self Assessment.
If you’re doing a paper tax return, you must submit it by midnight 31 October 2023.
If you’re doing an online tax return, you must submit it by midnight 31 January 2024.
You need to pay the tax you owe by midnight 31 January 2024.
There’s usually a second payment deadline of 31 July if you make advance payments towards your bill (known as ‘payments on account’).
You might not know what your profit will be for the whole tax year if, for example:
•your ‘accounting period’ ends at a different time to the end of the tax year
•your ‘accounting period’ is different to your ‘basis period’
•you’re waiting for a valuation
An ‘accounting period’ is the period which a business’s accounts are made up to (often 12 months) and gives the business year end. This can be different to the period used to identify the profits taxable in any particular tax year (also known as a ‘basis period’).
If you do not know what your profit will be for the whole tax year before the reporting deadline, you should work out what it’s likely to be (known as ‘provisional figures’) and include those.
Submit your online return by 30 December if you want HMRC to automatically collect tax you owe from your wages and pension. Find out if you are eligible to pay this way.
HMRC must receive a paper tax return by 31 January if you’re a trustee of a registered pension scheme or a non-resident company. You cannot send a return online.
The Self Assessment deadline for these tax years has passed. Send your tax return or payment as soon as possible - you’ll have to pay a penalty.
Sep 5, 2022 · Currently, HMRC are not reporting any ‘delay’ to the processing of paper Self Assessment tax returns on their service dashboard. At the moment, the service dashboard says that all paper tax returns received before 31 October 2022 (the paper filing deadline) will be processed before 31 December 2022.
Sep 29, 2021 · You can now use the tool to check when you’ll receive a reply to queries and requests about employers’ PAYE and National Insurance. Child Benefit has been added to the list about when you can...
Aug 7, 2023 · Self Assessment refund delays. HMRC's unacceptable delay in refunding my overpaid tax is a cause of significant financial worry for me. My request for refund was confirmed on the 10th of...
Jan 30, 2024 · You have until 11.59pm on Wednesday 31 January 2024 to send HMRC an online tax return for the 2022/2023 tax year, which ended on 5 April 2023. The same deadline also applies to those who need to make payments towards their tax bill.
Feb 2, 2024 · An estimated 1.1 million self-assessors failed to file their 2022-23 tax return by the 31 January deadline, according to HMRC. They will now face a £100 fine, plus interest on any outstanding tax. Of the 12.1 million customers expected to file this year, a whopping 778,068 waited until the last minute.
