Personal Tax Account
Your personal tax account helps you to manage your tax affairs online.
It’s safe, personalised, and brings together all your tax information in one place.
You can set one up by following this guidance:-
What you can do with your personal tax account
You can:
- check and change your address
- see what tax code you’re on, and how your tax is calculated
- check your state pension and your National Insurance record
- manage your Child Benefit payments
The self-employed, and persons in self-assessment
If you’re self-employed, or you’re in self assessment for other reasons, you can use your personal tax account to:
- find out what your Unique Taxpayer Reference (UTR) is for self-assessment
- view or print your self-assessment tax calculation (known as the SA302)
- notify HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) if you stop being self-employed
- view your Annual Tax Summary
- apply to reduce self-assessment payments on account when your profits or other income goes down
The employed
If you’re employed, you can use the Pay As You Earn (PAYE) section of your personal tax account to do the following:-
- see an estimate of the income tax you are likely to pay in the current year (starting April 2018) and next year (starting April 2019)
- check how your income tax has been calculated, and against which source of income it will be payable
- check the earnings your employer(s) have told HMRC about, including details of the tax you’ve paid and National Insurance contributions you’ve made each month-to-date in the current tax year, and for all 12 months of the previous tax year (starting April 2016)
- claim a tax refund:
- if you have overpaid income tax in the 2016/17 tax year, or earlier tax years
- if you have flexibly accessed a pension payment
- claim tax relief on employment expenses
State pension
In the ‘State Pension’ section of your personal tax account you can:
- find out how much State Pension you could get (this amount is also known as your State Pension forecast), when you can get it, and how to increase it, if you can
National Insurance
In the National Insurance section of your personal tax account you can:
- check your National Insurance record to see if you have any gaps in your National Insurance records
Child Benefit
If you receive Child Benefit, you can use your personal tax account to:
- report changes that affect your child benefit
- opt out of Child Benefit if you or your partner do not want to incur the High Income Child Benefit Charge
Other services
You can also use your personal tax account to:
- apply for Marriage Allowance
Contact us:
For more information please contact: nigel.atkinson@hghyork.co.uk, Robert.salenius@hghyork.co.uk, paul.morris@hghyork.co.uk, or call 01904 655202
