UK res client within SA has a foreign property that she lets out. She says there is a rental loss. Whilst recognising that (a)her DIY calculations could be wrong and there might be a profit and (b)she should take my advice and just give me the figures, nevertheless: is it compulsory to report a rental loss?
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Has she received a notice to file a tax return? If so, I would suggest that the answer is yes, since the prescribed return format requires the information.
If she has not received a notice to file a tax return and no tax is due then I suppose that she has no obligation to report the loss.
I would tend to report it anyway. We seem to be getting more & more HMRC enquiries about undisclosed overseas income that reporting it now may save justifying the non reporting in the future.