Using software to do tax return from abroad - ABRATAX

thenap80

I am a non uk resident and sold my UK house in July 2023, and paid the Capital Gains at the time. Was less than if I had been living in UK, 

I am doing a tax return using ABRATAX for the first time, as a non UK resident. But filling in the SA108, its asking for details about the house sale and gain etc. I put in what I put in on the origina HMRC submission in 2023... but when I calculate its asking me to pay a whopping amount more in CGT - when I already paid what was owed. 

Is ABRATAX not picking up my non UK res status or what? Is there an easier software program out there? Although this one seems easy but what is wroig with the calculation. 

Johanfpa

You can search the HMRC website and there is a list with various commercial software suppliers for the self assessment. Most will not free, Abratax is free and maybe not as user friendly as the paid for versions. I haven't used any except Intuit but that was for the tax accounts of a small business. 

silvercar

Your tax return calculates what you owe, it doesn't look at the amounts in your [tax] account to see what you have already paid.

Dazed_and_C0nfused

silvercar said:

Your tax return calculates what you owe, it doesn't look at the amounts in your [tax] account to see what you have already paid.

That is usually true but I think where the gain was reported and tax paid using the Real Time CGT service there is a box to declare the tax already paid amount.

I wonder if the op hasn't looked at the return carefully enough?

However that doesn't mean there can never be extra tax liability.  For example where the Real Time return didn't reflect the actual basic rate band available.