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Sep 5, 2024 · The general rule is that a refund or repayment cannot be claimed more than four years after the end of the relevant tax year. For example: if you are claiming a refund for the 2019-20 tax year, you add four years to 2020. You must make your claim by 5 April 2024. When can HMRC use the extended time limits?
- 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.
31 January 2024: online tax returns and first payment on account due. 6 April 2024: first day of the new 2024-25 tax year. 31 July 2024: second payment on account due. 5 October 2024: register for self-assessment. 31 October 2024: paper tax returns due.
Jul 10, 2024 · 31 January 2025: online tax return deadline; 31 January 2025: tax payment deadline for 2023-24 tax owed. If you pay your tax by payments on account you may have already made payments towards this bill. HMRC has the power to charge increasingly expensive penalties if you miss the tax return deadline, which starts with a £100 fine from the first ...
You file a claim within 3 years from when you file your return. Your credit or refund is limited to the amount you paid during the 3 years before you filed the claim, plus any extensions of time you had to file your return. You file a claim after 2 years from when you paid the tax.
Jan 16, 2024 · Tax refunds in the UK can take up to 12 weeks to be processed by HMRC with a further 5 days to 5 weeks added to receive your money. There are a number of reasons why you may be owed a tax refund, or tax rebate, from HMRC.