{"id":2862,"date":"2019-02-04T14:12:32","date_gmt":"2019-02-04T14:12:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/?p=2862"},"modified":"2019-02-04T14:12:36","modified_gmt":"2019-02-04T14:12:36","slug":"record-number-of-self-assessment-tax-returns-filed-by-the-deadline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/record-number-of-self-assessment-tax-returns-filed-by-the-deadline\/","title":{"rendered":"Record number of Self-Assessment tax returns filed by the deadline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has revealed that a total of 93.68 per cent of Self-Assessment tax returns were filed by the deadline.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This equated to a record number of 11.5 million taxpayers submitting their 2017\/18 tax returns by 11:59 pm on 31 January.<\/p>\n<p>Statistics indicated that the peak hour for filing was 4 pm to 5 pm on the 31 January, where over 60,000 tax returns were filed.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, more than 10.1 million (93.5 per cent of total filed) taxpayers submitted their returns online.<\/p>\n<p>Nevertheless, 700,000 taxpayers failed to submit their tax returns on deadline day.<\/p>\n<p>Mel Stride, Financial Secretary to the Treasury, said: \u201cIt is great to see so many people completing their Self-Assessment by the deadline. Their income tax contributions have helped towards funding the UK\u2019s vital public services including hospitals, schools and the emergency services.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>HMRC\u2019s Director General for Customer Services, Angela MacDonald, said: \u201cThank you to everyone who filed on time. This year, we had a record number of filers completing their tax returns by the deadline.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Any taxpayer who has missed the deadline and needs expert advice or support, then please don\u2019t hesitate to get in touch with us today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) has revealed that a total of 93.68 per cent of Self-Assessment tax returns were filed by the deadline.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2864,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,31,28,7,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862"}],"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=2862"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2863,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2862\/revisions\/2863"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2864"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bainesjewitt.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}