SA - previous employer had me as employed after redudency...

Kildare

Hi! Hoping someone can help with how to complete this on my self assessment form. I was made redundent in December 23 (received P45), with a final payment in March 24 and P11D received July 24. All of this information went into my 23/24 tax return so any tax from this employment has been dealt with.

Going to do my 24/25 return and it seems my previous employer had me on PAYE until 5th April 2025 (so 24/25 tax year) but with a salary & tax of £0. HMRC have automatically included this employment when setting up my online SA form, my question is do I leave it on the form or delete this employment? It won't make a difference in terms of paying tax, but I'm unsure on the correct way to complete the form as I wasn't employed by them.

Thanks!!

poseidon1

Kildare said:

Hi! Hoping someone can help with how to complete this on my self assessment form. I was made redundent in December 23 (received P45), with a final payment in March 24 and P11D received July 24. All of this information went into my 23/24 tax return so any tax from this employment has been dealt with.

Going to do my 24/25 return and it seems my previous employer had me on PAYE until 5th April 2025 (so 24/25 tax year) but with a salary & tax of £0. HMRC have automatically included this employment when setting up my online SA form, my question is do I leave it on the form or delete this employment? It won't make a difference in terms of paying tax, but I'm unsure on the correct way to complete the form as I wasn't employed by them.

Thanks!!

I doubt it's your employer showing this, more likely its  HMRC's last record of a PAYE payer on your behalf, especially if you have not been employed since your redundancy.

In my case, my last PAYE employer terminating in 2017/18 (a short  6 month temporary contract), sat in HMRC records via their app, with zero annual income until the state pension came on stream last year when it then disappeared. I ignored it throughout those years.

As for my self assement annual tax return, I use third party software so simply deleted that employer in the following tax year of employment termination, when the software automatically rolled the employer details forward.

silvercar

I have had this. It is just the hmrc SA software including previous employers by default. Provided that the income from this employer is zero it isn’t an issue. 

Kildare

silvercar said:

I have had this. It is just the hmrc SA software including previous employers by default. Provided that the income from this employer is zero it isn’t an issue. 

Did you leave it on you self-assessment form (with zeros) or delete that employment from your return? Thanks!