The new GOV.UK One Login

JTBasketman

Having been involved in self-employment, business ownerships, partnerships etc., I have several Government Gateway emails and logins appropriate to each. The new GOV.UK One Login seems to be encouraging just one login, although depending on how it is introduced and presented, it seems that you can end up with more than one login. The ‘internet’ advice seems varied on whether you should have more than one, but also presents the advantages of doing this (mainly keeping business and personal dealings separate), as the GOV.UK system seems to allow this at the moment.

Your thoughts, advise and experiences would be greatly appreciated, TIA

elsien

despite having signed up for the one login service, when I tried to use it for HMRC, I am told it doesn’t exist. Even though I’ve used it before.

Savvy_Sue

I can see advantages in keeping business and personal details separate. I can also see advantages in keeping multiple different business details separate from each other. .Gov.UK disagrees …

JTBasketman

One of the problems I'm having is receiving the security code to verify my identity for Companies House. According to the GOV.UK One helpline, they are being generated by Companies House, but they are arriving after the page has expired or they just come up as incorrect.

It also states that the email addresses must match. It doesn't seem appropriate to use my personal email address for the companies house registration etc.

JTBasketman

…. and further down the line you'll need a fairly new phone, You need Android 10 or later to use the GOV.UK One Login app. So I'm buggered with my Android 9 (which I thought was fairly new). So I will need to borrow someone's phone or make a trip to the Post Office to complete this lovely task asap.

Oh what a malarkey.

Lorian

Android 9 is out of support hasn't been getting security patches for about 4 years.

I have a gov.one account but HMRC won't let me use it to log in to a self assessment account originally created with gov gateway, so there is not much 'one' about it.

LITRG

HMRC is starting to replace the Government Gateway with the new One Login service. As part of the testing process only a limited number of new online users have been given access to One Login. We have guidance about this and HMRC's other online services on our website: https://www.litrg.org.uk/tax-nic/how-tax-collected/online-tax-accounts

katejo

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/comment/81970935#Comment_81970935

I recently set up a new Gov.UK one login in connection with doing a P of A. Today I wanted to access my HMRC tax account and the website said I could use this login but, once logged in, there is no mention of HMRC at all and it says it can only be used for limited purposes. I went back to my Gov gateway login but I can't get that to work either. i can get part way but when it asks for passport info, it then says it isn't available for technical reasons! Has anyone managed to access HMRC recently via the Government gateway?

molerat

Has anyone managed to access HMRC recently via the Government gateway?

Working fine for me