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NON flexible ISA ???
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Yes - it's correct because, as stated, you would have already used up your ISA allowance and if the ISA the money was paid into wasn't flexible, then your allowance won't decrease by £5k when the withdrawal is made.Twatonabike said:
Are we sure about this ?? - is this 100% correct - ???? -Albermarle said:
No, because you have used up your max £20K ISA allowance .Sea_Shell said:Can you pay it in elsewhere?
Eg deposit £20k in a non flexible ISA, withdraw £5000, then open a flexible ISA elsewhere and deposit the £5k.
Does the flexible (or not) bit only apply to the ISA the withdrawal was from?
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Middle_of_the_Road said:
Any amounts withdrawn from a non-flexibl ISA will lose their tax free status. Therefore paying it into another ISA (flexible or not) will count as new money.Twatonabike said:
Are we sure about this ?? - is this 100% correct - ???? -Albermarle said:
No, because you have used up your max £20K ISA allowance .Sea_Shell said:Can you pay it in elsewhere?
Eg deposit £20k in a non flexible ISA, withdraw £5000, then open a flexible ISA elsewhere and deposit the £5k.
Does the flexible (or not) bit only apply to the ISA the withdrawal was from?
So is the difference that non-flexible ISA providers declare the total new contributions to HMRC, but flexible ISAs only report the NET contributions?
How's it going, AKA, Nutwatch? - 12 month spends to date = 3.24% of current retirement "pot" (as at end December 2025)0 -
Not sure anyone (even HMRC) knows what gets reported to HMRC.Sea_Shell said:Middle_of_the_Road said:
Any amounts withdrawn from a non-flexibl ISA will lose their tax free status. Therefore paying it into another ISA (flexible or not) will count as new money.Twatonabike said:
Are we sure about this ?? - is this 100% correct - ???? -Albermarle said:
No, because you have used up your max £20K ISA allowance .Sea_Shell said:Can you pay it in elsewhere?
Eg deposit £20k in a non flexible ISA, withdraw £5000, then open a flexible ISA elsewhere and deposit the £5k.
Does the flexible (or not) bit only apply to the ISA the withdrawal was from?
So is the difference that non-flexible ISA providers declare the total new contributions to HMRC, but flexible ISAs only report the NET contributions?
We'll find out sometime later this year if people get accused of something they may or may not have doneI consider myself to be a male feminist. Is that allowed?0 -
Flexible ISAs were introduced ten years ago, so unsure why there'd be anything new this year about their reporting (and that of non-flexible ones)? There have been some tweaks to the rules surrounding them in 2024 and 2025, but nothing that should affect the principle of reporting net subscriptions?surreysaver said:Not sure anyone (even HMRC) knows what gets reported to HMRC.
We'll find out sometime later this year if people get accused of something they may or may not have done2 -
I thought the rules had changed and then changed back again. May cause some confusion?eskbanker said:
Flexible ISAs were introduced ten years ago, so unsure why there'd be anything new this year about their reporting (and that of non-flexible ones)? There have been some tweaks to the rules surrounding them in 2024 and 2025, but nothing that should affect the principle of reporting net subscriptions?surreysaver said:Not sure anyone (even HMRC) knows what gets reported to HMRC.
We'll find out sometime later this year if people get accused of something they may or may not have doneI consider myself to be a male feminist. Is that allowed?0 -
But those changes shouldn't affect flexible ISA reporting, which, to the best of my knowledge, has been based on net subscriptions since 2016.surreysaver said:
I thought the rules had changed and then changed back again. May cause some confusion?eskbanker said:
Flexible ISAs were introduced ten years ago, so unsure why there'd be anything new this year about their reporting (and that of non-flexible ones)? There have been some tweaks to the rules surrounding them in 2024 and 2025, but nothing that should affect the principle of reporting net subscriptions?surreysaver said:Not sure anyone (even HMRC) knows what gets reported to HMRC.
We'll find out sometime later this year if people get accused of something they may or may not have done2
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