HMRC now requesting previous years tax returns [HICBC]

mr._prude

I have been a PAYE all my life, 20 plus years but had to submit a tax return for 2023/24 due the High Income Child Benefit Charge. I have now received a letter from HMRC requesting tax returns for the previous 3 years.

They have my PAYE tax details for these years so cannot understand why they would need this.

Has anyone else received this letter?

TheSpectator

mr._prude said:

I have been a PAYE all my life, 20 plus years but had to submit a tax return for 2023/24 due the High Income Child Benefit Charge. I have now received a letter from HMRC requesting tax returns for the previous 3 years.

They have my PAYE tax details for these years so cannot understand why they would need this.

Has anyone else received this letter?

If you are due to pay back child benefit for those earlier years then completing Tax Returns is the only way to collect it  - were you over the £50k for those years?

mr._prude

No was below 50k

Hoenir

HICBC was first introduced in January 2013. Onus is on taxpayers to file a self assessment return even if they are on PAYE. Presumably the HMRC have recently detected something relating to the period in question. 

Dazed_and_C0nfused

mr._prude said:

I have been a PAYE all my life, 20 plus years but had to submit a tax return for 2023/24 due the High Income Child Benefit Charge. I have now received a letter from HMRC requesting tax returns for the previous 3 years.

They have my PAYE tax details for these years so cannot understand why they would need this.

Has anyone else received this letter?

Why would what had happened to anyone else be relevant to your income tax position 🤔

If, when you have checked your adjusted net income for the previous 3 years, you don't think you meet the criteria for Self Assessment for those years then you can ask HMRC to withdraw the returns.

Ignoring them is the way to a whole world of pain.