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Can I claim personal pension contribution tax relief (higher rate) online?

werutd · 2020-04-08 09:12:16

I'm a higher rate tax payer and have to write to HMRC every year to tell them about the pension contributions I've made so I can get the additional (higher rate) relief. I usually do this after the end of the tax year as I sometimes make a pension top-up in March so I only know the total for the year after that. Does…

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werutd Posts: 18 Forumite

9 April 2020 at 10:29AM

Thanks for the replies, I've never had to fill in a self-assessment and don't particularly want to start now as surely this will be even more work than just telling them my pension contribution.

So no explicit step by step on this yet? When I login to the personal tax account I can only see how to tell them about things for the current tax year, not the last tax year.

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