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This is what we have been asking for.
The current prepopulation is far too slow. Even now at the tail end of the tax season its often still not there, and often incomplete so dangerous to rely on.
However how on earth is putting made up P11D data in going to help anyone? Making up stuff just causes a long list of problems and corrections. The answer to the P11D problem is to ensure it get filed by 19th April. There is no good reason it cant be filed at the year end other than poor organisation.
In Taxfiler, I have clicked on the "Get info from HMRC" button (or whatever its called) on every return I have prepared this year.
Every single case, it says there is no information to give me.
Useless AF somewhere along the line
As long as they get the correct data in. I was surprised with my last tax return that HMRC had my cashed in pension lump sums as to one as a new "employment" and kept nudging me that I was an employee (I have not been an employee for 20 years) and had the other pension I had cashed in as pension. So either one of the pension companies told HMRC I was an employee or HMRC wrongly decided that pension pay out was employment income.
I had a lump sum which they put in week 1 and multiplied by 52 weeks giving me an income of £552000 ( I wish) . when I queried it they seemed perplexed and would get back to me - they then deleted of the computer and denied it was ever their . What hope have we with a corrupt tax system lol
No mention of 'In year' tax code adjustments which are incorrectly pre-populated in the self assessment form as prior year unpaid tax?
This has been a systemic error which is easy for the taxpayer to misunderstand or miss. Hopefully it will be corrected for 2018-19.
This is great news as long as it actually works. The 2018 API has returned less data than the 2017 API.
I think it is useful, at least HMRC can get some IT projects right. Even when the downloads are wrong or incomplete - which is about 20% of the time across my client base - it gives you a bit of useful insight into the problems with RTI which still have not been fixed all these years later.
I am sure that I saw an HMRC post that said it had been put back from 2018-19 because of budget issues (presumbaly trying to plan for Brexit). Can't find it now though