Tax return self assessment question

cazs

Filling my 20-21 return as per usual however I've come up against something confusing and hoping someone can shed some light. 

I was employed in 20-21 in my job where I'd been for years and paid my tax via PAYE as usual. 

The reason I do a self assessment is to pay the tax on property earnings.  However, this time, even before I've add in the info about the property and figures in to the appropriate section the View Your Calculation section is giving me a bill of about £2.5k on my employed salary from 20-21 and telling me I owe tax on it. But surely that was paid by PAYE at the time?  This has never happened before. 

The only thing I can think of that might explain this is that I left my employment in autumn 2021.  But that's a different tax year so can't understand why HMRC would think that me being unemployed now (and thus not being on PAYE) means I didn't pay my tax through PAYE at the time during 20-21. 

I guess I'll have to just submit and pay whatever the bill is and query next week but anyone can shed light?

Thanks

Dazed_and_C0nfused

PAYE is just a provisional attempt to collect the correct amount of tax, nothing unusual whatsoever at owing more than was deducted (or being owed a refund).

Did your taxable income exceed £100k?

Are you liable to the High Income Child Benefit Charge?

Have you compared your tax code (what it was made up of) with what you have entered on the return?

As ever with this type of query it comes down to the detail for the answer to be forthcoming.

[Deleted User]

Did you include the tax paid on the relevant section on the return? A common error.

cazs

Thank you for your responses. Realised why it went wrong. To the question - 'our records illustrate you have a plan 1 student loan etc'  in the first section, I'd put 'Yes' because I did have a loan but it was paid off about a year back.  Once I changed it to 'No' and wrote an explanatory note that cleared the tax due. 

One further question if I may, the £125 working from home relief, whereabouts on the online self-!!!!!! form does one input this figure? Google is not helpful.

I put it under "Other expenses and capital allowances" but the View Calc then only gives a rebate of £23.80 so I'm thinking I've put it in the wrong place? 

Dazed_and_C0nfused

Where have you got £125 from????

I suspect you are massively overcomplicating things.

Do you wish to claim tax relief on Covid-19 WFH expenses of £6/week?

cazs

Yep, lots of places are saying it's £125. Eg https://www.thetimes.co.uk/money-mentor/article/working-from-home-tax-relief/?amp=1 

But when I enter £125 in the employment expenses section it generates that £23 rebate. 

Dazed_and_C0nfused

You cannot claim "tax relief" of £125 in relation to employment expenses.

You include the expenses and your tax liability takes the expenses into account.  For example reducing the amount you have to pay tax on by £312.

Maybe you should remove the "tax relief" of £125 and include expenses of £312.

Assuming you are claiming due to WFH because of Covid-19 of course.

cazs

Yes, wfh only due to Covid and claiming in relation to that. 

Maybe I'm using the phrase 'tax relief' incorrectly then. 

All fixed now, thank you.