Basic Self-Employment / Sole Trader Information Question

kvetlana

Hi all,

I'm hoping someone more experienced with self-assessment can help me. I feel like I'm just going round in circles!

I registered as self-employed earlier in the year, and since then I've changed the focus of the services I'm providing. I recall when I registered with HMRC that I input information about the nature of the services (at the time, writing, but now I'm focussed almost exclusively on proofreading/editing) and I am struggling to find out how to access this basic information about my self-employment, let alone make changes to it?!

I'm still waiting for the activation code to complete my tax return online - the first time I requested it, it didn't arrive - but it doesn't seem as though the login area for that allows me to see the info about my self-employment/sole trader information.

Of course contacting HMRC is a nightmare - the web chat doesn't work, and my phone calls are dropped without answer. My questions are:

• Can I see or edit the information that I provided them with when I registered? If so, where?
• If not, do I have to write to them to inform them of the changes?

Thank you in advance for any help you can provide!

01afraser4

In terms of completing your Self Assessment I don't think there will be much of an issue. There is a box when completing the Self Employment page of your return that asks for a short description of your business so I'd suggest you just add the new description in there.

The only reason I could see it being an issue is if you were operating separate businesses then a separate Self Employment page would need to be completed for each but as yours is a single business then I don't imagine it would be a problem.

kvetlana

Thanks, that's reassuring! I'll wait for my code to come through and see what I can do.