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Tax Returns question

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Hi,

I don't know exactly where this post should go, so I thought cutting tax board might be the right one! (I hope)

I get sent a tax return every year since 2007 when I briefly went self employed. Became employed again with the same firm, and the firms accountants have been doing the tax returns every year for me, although, it's NIL because I don't earn anything self employed.

Just got this years but at what point can you stop being made to fill in a return? Someone once told me that you can never stop them and you always have to send them in even if the earnings are nil for the rest of your life?!! Is there any point me ringing to ask them to stop sending them? (I am assuming there will be a long queue and I'd have to set aside a good half hour to speak to someone who can answer this and quite frankly, don't want to do this only to be made to feel like a fool by some snotty HMRC person!)

Thanks

nomnomnom

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  • There is a field in the return where you can put the date when you stopped being self employed.

    There is no need to complete and file Self Assessments for the rest of your life, but you do need to inform HMRC that you are no longer self employed.
    Who having known the diamond will concern himself with glass?

    Rudyard Kipling


  • chrismac1
    chrismac1 Posts: 2,585 Forumite
    You can also try writing to them, explaining your circumstances. I have got a few clients out of the SA tax system in this way. It will take a few months for them to respond.
    Hideous Muddles from Right Charlies
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