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Extended deadline for tax returns and payments






Posted by Tony Flynn on 27th January 2012 at 03:16 PM
Extended deadline for tax returns and payments
Strike action by HMRC staff will mean that many people who want to file their SA return on 31 January and try to phone with questions they need answered to do that will not be able to get through. Because of this nobody who files online on 1 or 2 February this year will get a late filing penalty. No one will pay interest on any payments made on Feb 1 or 2.

HMRC's Acting Director General Personal Tax, Stephen Banyard, said:

“We’ve always been very clear that we want the returns – not the penalties. For that reason, we don’t want anyone who can’t get through for help and advice on 31 January to be disadvantaged in any way.”

David Gauke, Exchequer Secretary to the Treasury, said:

“This strike could have caused thousands of people to incur fines, so I am pleased that HMRC has taken this common sense approach. The Government does not want anyone trying to file their tax return on time to be unfairly penalised because they were unable to get through for help and advice on the 31 January.”

Source: HMRC.



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