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Landlord self assessment query - relief on mortgage interest
Hi all, It's that time of year again... i hope everyone is filing happily! I have completed my self assessment (not submitted) for my buy-to-let flat and it appears that i'm not getting the full 20% relief for finance costs. The "view your calculation" summary states: - minus Relief for finance costs £8,180.00 reduced to…
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Is my understanding of this tax code notice correct ?
Hi. I'm hoping someone knowledgable about the tax system and deciphering tax code notices can assist. We live in Scotland and my wife is retired and in receipt of a DB pension of £3,400 p.a. and drawdown from a SIPP of £8,400 p.a., i.e. £11,700 gross p.a.. She also has a savings account which last tax year earned £974…
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Help: Contacting HMRC To Change Estimated to Actual Untaxed interest
With the
great help of Eskbanker I managed to access HMRC and find the place where I can
notify them of the actual interest earned rather than their estimate for this FY. I’m
concerned that after filling out the form but NOT submitting it, that the
interest figure is shown twice and I certainly wouldn’t want HMRC to…
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Counteracting high tax by paying extra to pension?
Due to interest on savings my tax code means I'm being taxed a lot more at the moment. Would it be a good idea to pay extra into my pension and get the tax back that way?
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Confused by self assessment
I registered for self-Assessment because as an employee my taxes pays you earn but because of the surveys I do on the side, that brought in other income of about 2 1/2 K last year. The HMRC tax portal is showing I’m late for 23/24, which I didn’t even know I had to do, but 24/25 is showing that I don’t need to do anything…
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Tax on interest and pension
Hi, I’m receiving the state pension for the first time this financial year, so April 2025 to April 2026. The income from my pension will be £13,733.94, I’ve received the winter fuel payment of £200 and I’m not sure that I’m entitled to it, I thought that it was people born before 1950 or something like that, but I’ve just…
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Help with SA101 Chargeable Event Certificate
Thank you for viewing my post I've received a letter from HMRC that i must complete form SA101 ( paper not online ) on behalf of my Dad who past away. The request is due to a chargeable event certificate from his life insurance policy . My confusion is which box i need put the gain amount in, its either Box 4: Tax treated…
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Help with Capital Gains Tax form
Hello, a question about filling in the form to pay capital gains tax. If you sell 2 assets to the same person for a combined price, do you need to list each asset on the tax return or can it be treated as 1 entry / 1 total ? tia sx
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Tax deducted from source
Both our pensions (not state) are being deducted at source to pay tax we owe. We create too much interest on our investments, beyond what's allowed. These investments are in joint names. Does the HMRC look at joint accounts and tax us both, half each? Or the full amount for each of us? Is it better not to have investments…
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Capital Gains Tax....will i need to pay it?
Hi folks , hopefully someone can give advice here. My dad died over a year ago and left his house which he built around 50 years ago in 'liferent ' to my Step-mum ( his wife), she gets to live in it as long as she wants, and only once she has passed away the house was to go to myself and my brother. Both my brother and…
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Child benefit tax / pension withdrawl
Apologies if this isn't the correct forum, but it is more of a tax question than a pension question. I've had to withdraw money from my pension this month, I have paid tax on it. However, the amount I've withdrawn combined with my salary will take me over the £60k limit for child benefit. However, the child that we get…
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First self assessment with RSUs
Received vested RSUs from my employer June 2023 showing as income on my P60 and accounted for on my payslip with tax withheld and company paying their own NIC. Do I need to put this information on my self assessment anywhere other than P60 total for year? Also I recently left the company and sold the RSUs with a profit of…
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Self assessment property boxes?
I have a rental property which I am filling the uk property self assessment form. Obviously I filled in box 20 with my total rents & then I filled in 24 & 25 with my expenses (without any mortgage interest). So I have done the deductions between the two & put the profit amount in box 38 ‘adjusted profit for the year’ & the…
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UK dividend tax to pay on US shares (ongoing and historic)
Hello, I could do with some forum wisdom on how to treat tax for some historic and ongoing dividend payments from owning US shares. Situation is as per:* Shares were acquired more than a decade ago as part of compensation whilst working for a US firm. * They are held by a US bank who also holds a cash account for dividend…
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Self Assessment Question
Is there any need to include payments to a SIPP or charitable giving on self assessment if you are a basic rate tax payer?
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36% IHT rate
Please could
someone check if these calculations are correct about reducing IHT to 36% when leaving
10% of a net estate to charity. 1) No gift
to charity Gross
estate £1,200,000 Less NRB
and RNRB (£500,000) Net taxable
estate £700,000 IHT at 40%
£280,000 Amount to
legatees £920,000 2) 10% gift
to charity Gross
estate…
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Income Tax and Starting Rate of Savings Tax for low Earners
Hi, Can anyone confirm whether when calc tax for low earners with savings it goes something like this.. Add your annual income (in this case £13634 to annual savings interest} and then take away £12570 allowance plus 5k savings starter allowance plus 1k personal savings allowance) to get the tax amount payable?
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Does this need a self assessment tax submission?
OK - so I have submitted a self assessment for the last couple of years on the basis that I get about £170 a month pension from Canada. It's not taxed in Canada so needs to be taxed here. I have pension income here (and a tiddly amount of interest earned) so am above the personal exemption level. My OH has just started to…
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Working from home - tax relief when employed AND self employed?
Hi,I'm hoping some one can help advise what to do?I'm currently in paid employment for 4 days and have had to work from home since October during the pandemic. My fifth day is self employed and I've had little to no business. I'm looking at applying for the tax relief for working from home for just my employed job (as it…
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unused inheritance tax from 2001
My mother passed a few weeks back and after going through her accounts it looks like she may have to pay IHT. Can I use my dads unused inheritance tax from 2001 and is there a link to that information on HMRC? I'm struggling to find it.
