Self assessment help

caz2003uk

Surely any tax payable when JSA was being claimed would have been dealt with by the job centre? unless im wrong?

No further income apart from those 2 days which they know about already and JSA

Mikeyorks

You're wrong I'm afraid. The JSA is taxable but paid without tax being deducted - as it's normally under the threshold.

PlutoinCapricorn

HMRC may just want to settle up at the end of the tax year, as some people who are on it and work may have paid the wrong amount of tax overall.

System

If the return is expected it has to be completed. It doesn't matter if he didn't have any self-employed work.
If he wasn't self-employed in 2010/2011, and assuming that he has registered as self-employed in the past, then he should have put a cessation date for his self-employment on his 2009/2010 tax return. HMRC don't know if someone stops being self-employed unless they actually get told. Being a PAYE employee and/or claiming benefits does not mean that a person has stopped being self-employed.

jennifernil

Lots of people on PAYE fill in tax returns. If you are sent one/asked to file, the easiest thing is just to do it.

Fill in anything he earned, bank interest, JSA, and enter the tax deducted.

Easier to comply with the request than argue!

Dave101t

the deadline is for 2010-2011, not 2011-2012.
im employed and pay through paye but because i was abroad once a few years ago, they ask me to fill one in every year.

caz2003uk

Thanks for all the replies!

I think the reason they sent him a request, was because when he was looking for work he thought there a chance of some self employed work and in turn applied for a self employed card/number, it was going to take 6/7 weeks to receive this, but the job he thought he was going to be doing never ended up happening, he phoned and cancelled the self employed card/number request and so never received one, maybe they think he did some self employed work on that basis