Self Assessment tax return & Savings Interest

KingKenny

As per my other thread.


Hi all.


I have an Aunt, my mums youngest sister, she went off to live in Australia, but has since returned. Before she went she opened around five different savings accounts with various institutions (cannot open them while abroad), and since returning she has opened a further five saving accounts again with various institutions (in case she returns to Australia). So in total she must have over ten different accounts. To make matters worse, each time there has been a new issue, .i.e. an increase in interest rate, she has closed the old issue and transferred the balance to the new issue. Not kept record of interest received post closing the old issue.

In the tax year 2017 to 2018, she held these accounts with different issues, so quite a number of various bank account numbers all paying interest amounts in the tax year 2017 to 2018.
When she closed the old issues she never kept an account of the interest payed to her by the institution for that specific closed account issue during the tax year 2017 to 2018.
Now it has come to light she must submit a self assessment tax return for the tax year 2017 to 2018. But has no record of all the interest she has received for that year.


Can I ask, does the online self assessment portal have a auto fill policy where the specific institution has forwarded on the information to the HMRC, so this auto drops the interest recieved into your specific assessment form?



OR



Does it ask for specific amounts of interest received from specific bank account numbers if the auto fill policy is not the case?


Or does she have to provide every account number, and every sum of interest received for that account number received in the tax year 2017 to 2018?


She has such small amounts in each account I do wonder why hold them all? But this is the case.


Thanks for any help.