S4 on SA online

castle96

My answer to each of these Qs is £0, but then it wants me to insert a figure greater than £0 or I cannot proceed. Also a previous Q re 'Tips'... I insert £0 and the section will not complete. Any ideas please.I.m not a farmer or artist !


Sec.4

Adjustments to tax due

Top of Form 1

Do you need to make any adjustments to increase or decrease your tax due for 2015 to 2016? This may apply if you are claiming averaging for farmers or creators of literary or artistic work or you had post-cessation receipts.

Increase in tax due because of adjustments to an earlier year:£

Decrease in tax due because of adjustments to an earlier year:£


Any 2016-17 repayment you are claiming now:£


Bottom of Form 1

gt94sss2

What happens if you leave all the fields blank instead of putting 0?

castle96

yep that worked !

this one ?

ERROR: There is 1 error on this page.


'Please give any other information in this space' can only contain alpha, numeric and the following special characters: ' ( ) * , - . / & @ £. The enter (or return) key located on your keyboard is not accepted. Please amend.

ERROR: Please amend this entry.

　

need to reclaim tax paid on two items

Halifax rewards of seventy five puonds gross. fifteen pounds tax deducted

A1 compensation payment of one hundred thirtyfive pounds gross interest. twenty seven pounds and five pence tax deducted

gt94sss2

You seem to have a . At the end of the second to last line?

castle96

need to reclaim tax paid on two items

Halifax rewards of seventy five puonds gross
fifteen pounds tax deducted

A1 compensation payment of one hundred thirtyfive pounds gross interest
twenty seven pounds and five pence tax deducted

removed two full stops (says they ARE allowed anyway). Still makes no difference !

agrinnall

Perhaps it's doing a grammar and spelling check. For instance, puonds and thirtyfive.

castle96

thanks.
I gave up/deleted it and submitted a form R40 instead ! Bloody site

polymaff

castle96 wrote: »

'Please give any other information in this space' can only contain alpha, numeric and the following special characters: ' ( ) * , - . / & @ £. The enter (or return) key located on your keyboard is not accepted. Please amend.

If you typed it in as it appears in your posting, then you used the enter key. I got tripped up in the same way as I also had three paragraphs to enter in this box. Can't remember what I substituted to form pseudo-paragraph-breaks - probably ............. but it worked

[Deleted User]

polymaff wrote: »

If you typed it in as it appears in your posting, then you used the enter key. I got tripped up in the same way as I also had three paragraphs to enter in this box. Can't remember what I substituted to form pseudo-paragraph-breaks - probably ............. but it worked

You are absolutely correct - cannot believe that this still occurs after all these years.

Use the space bar to get on to the next line.

dori2o

[Deleted User] wrote:

You are absolutely correct - cannot believe that this still occurs after all these years.

Use the space bar to get on to the next line.

There is a very simple reason why it still occurs..... cost

As HMRC now outsources all its IT it is forced topay to make any changes to the technology or the services that it provides.

To make a simple change to the online tax return form costs tens of thousands of pounds, and so for things like this where it willnot recognise the enter/return key it simply isn't worth the cost of putting it right.

I submitted a sugggestion a few years ago regarding the online and paper P11d, suggesting an end date box be included for medical insurance (Not somuch of an issue now). The idea reached the final stage of the process and was stopped only because of the cost of changing the forms and the online form. The cost was well into 6 figures.

The only changes they tend to make to the online tax return are those which are enforced, absolutely necessary and unavoidable.

madgagoo

castle96 wrote: »

thanks.
I gave up/deleted it and submitted a form R40 instead ! Bloody site

Don't forget that if HMRC have issued a tax return to you then you still have to complete it, otherwise you will end up with late filing penalties.

Submitting an R40 won't fulfil your filing obligations. In fact HMRC may well reject your R40 if they have issued a tax return.