SEISS 5 Elibility

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Can you claim SEISS 5 having started as an ST in April 2020? This extract suggests you can but other areas of the information contradict this.

If you started or ceased a business in 2020 to 2021

You should include the turnover received between April 2020 and April 2021, even if this covers less than 12 months.

If you have more than one business as a sole trader

Your figure must include the total turnover from all of your businesses. This includes any new business you started between April 2020 and April 2021.

Jeremy535897

No. (If you started on 1 - 5 April 2020, and filed your 2019/20 tax return showing that by 2 March 2021, theoretically you could, but your profits would presumably be tiny.)

1.1 When you must have traded

You must have traded in the tax years:

• 2019 to 2020 and submitted your tax return on or before 2 March 2021
• 2020 to 2021

You must either:

• be currently trading but are impacted by reduced demand due to coronavirus
• have been trading but are temporarily unable to do so due to coronavirus