{"id":2253,"date":"2018-01-24T11:40:11","date_gmt":"2018-01-24T11:40:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2253"},"modified":"2018-01-24T11:40:11","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T11:40:11","slug":"third-taxpayers-yet-complete-self-assessment-just-one-week-go","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/third-taxpayers-yet-complete-self-assessment-just-one-week-go\/","title":{"rendered":"Third of taxpayers yet to complete Self Assessment with just one week to go"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Almost a third of tax returns are outstanding with just a week to go before the January Self Assessment deadline, HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) has revealed.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>In a recent update, the tax office said there are over three million customers \u2013 those who don\u2019t pay tax through the PAYE system \u2013 yet to complete their 2016\/17 return.<\/p>\n<p>The deadline for sending the Self Assessment tax return to HMRC, as well as pay any tax due, is midnight 31 January 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Angela MacDonald, HMRC Director General of Customer Services, said: \u201cThe 7-day countdown to 31 January has now begun. Put a stop to that niggling feeling and do your Self Assessment now. Our helpful online services offer support and advice, so you can complete your tax return quicker than you think.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It warned that sending your tax return late will result in a \u00a3100 penalty \u2013 even if you do not owe any tax.<\/p>\n<p>However, those who think they will struggle to pay any tax owed can contact the Business Payment Support Service (BPSS).<\/p>\n<p>Through this service, the tax office may agree to instalment arrangements, suspend debt collection proceedings, review penalties, reduce payments on account, or agree to defer payment due to short-term cash flow difficulties.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Almost a third of tax returns are outstanding with just a week to go before the January Self Assessment deadline, HM Revenue &amp; Customs (HMRC) has revealed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2254,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2253"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2255,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2253\/revisions\/2255"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}