How to enter redundency payment on self-assessment tax return

Kildare

Morning all! Hoping someone can confirm if I'm completing my online self assessment correctly.

I was made redundent at the end of last year and was paid more than the £30k tax free redundency allowance. On my P45, my previous employer has completed the total pay to date and tax to date boxes including the additional taxed redundency payment (so excluding the £30k tax free). Can I put these figures straight into the first section of my return (Pay from X - total from P45) and just put the £30k tax free amount in the section regarding redundency payments or do I need to split the amounts out? My company took all needed tax / NI from the taxable redundency payment.

Additionally I received a bonus payment from my ex-employer in March 2024 which isn't on the P45, this has also had tax / NI deducted. Can I just add this on to the first section of my tax return (Pay from X).

Thanks for your help!

[Deleted User]

You don’t put the tax free element of the redundancy anywhere on the form. Thats the whole point - it’s tax free and doesn’t count!

I agree with your other points. 

Kildare

[Deleted User] said:

You don’t put the tax free element of the redundancy anywhere on the form. Thats the whole point - it’s tax free and doesn’t count!

I agree with your other points. 

There's a section under 'other income' for this : "Compensation and lump sum payments up to the £30,000 exemption. If you have had a redundancy payment up to £30,000, after any post-employment notice pay has been taken off, and against which your employer has allowed an exemption on, put the total amount that you received in this box. If your payment, after any post-employment notice pay has been taken off, is more than the £30,000 limit, you'll have to pay tax on the difference. Put the amount over £30,000 in 'Redundancy and other lump sum and compensation' box, any tax taken off in 'Tax taken off' box and the £30,000 limit in this box."

I'm confused on where to put the taxable amount as my employer included all the taxable part on the P45 so it seems odd to have to break the amounts back out into 'other income', though I would assume I'd still need to put the £30k in this box. Thanks