Self-Assessment and SSP?

LittleMonkey16

Hi everyone

Not sure if I'm in the correct place but I hope so!

I am completing my self-assessment for 2013/14 at the moment, but the information provided by HMRC is proving to be characteristically obtuse.

I basically have two questions. First, when entering the tax paid for an employment, should I just enter the total income tax paid (not including the national insurance paid), or should I enter the grand total of both income tax and national insurance paid?

Second, I received some SSP (statutory sick pay) during my employment, on which I obviously paid tax at the point of receipt. Does this simply go into the total gross payments for the employment (the total from my P45), or should it be deducted from the total gross pay for the employment and treated separately as a 'taxable state benefit'? I'm concerned that if I get this wrong I may end up paying tax on this SSP sum twice.

Any help anyone can offer will be very gratefully received!

Delphina

Hi

Don't include NI; just use gross annual pay (incl. SSP ) and tax figures. If you have more than one job in the same tax year, just add up the total gross pay and tax figures from each job together (from P45 and/or P60), to get the annual pay and tax:)

LittleMonkey16

Thanks, Delphina - that seemed to me the most sensible way forward, but I wasn't sure. I appreciate your help!