Self Assessment Dividends

[GMScribe]

Hi Guys,

I'm just filling out my self assessment. I am a lecturer who runs a secondary business as director through a Ltd company and get paid via PAYE for lecturing and purely via Dividends for my company (as per previous forum advice).

My issue is that I do not yet have a PAYE reference as a director so can not add it as an employment on the on-line form. If I received no income do I still have to add this employment to my tax return by registering myself for a PAYE code?

Many thanks

[Clare@InTouch]

If you had no PAYE income from your own company then you don't need to fill in an employment page for it, just put the value of any dividends you took on the main form itself.