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So I started on option 4. What an awful experience. The HMRC person the phone had zero, and I mean zero empathy. Normally I'd give someone like this the benefit of the doubt as they're just doing their job, but I got off the phone just feeling utterly demeaned and guilty. I've since resorted to...
Possibly a dumb question, but is this still workable? Your helpful document talks about pension contributions in the last tax year, 2018/9. I assume there's no way to make a pension contribution to 2018/9 now?
Thanks - so in my case: UK employer paying IOM company, IOM paying me through 1) salary and 2) loans through EBT. The fees I paid were to both the IOM company and the loan trustee, deducted net before payment to me. If I'm understanding you correctly, it depends on whether those fees were for a...
I'm outside the EU - quite far south of it - sorry, I'm wary of saying much at all. But as was confirmed for me yesterday, my local tax agent's view is that HMRC are able to use my local tax authority to "recover tax". As I understand it, the LC is tax. Supposedly not a retrospective one, which...
HMRC have finally sent me a letter regarding the loan charge, confirming they know I exist. I'll be calling them in the next week or so to see what years are open and to kick off the process (probably) of declaring my loans. But first I'm wondering about residency.
I left the UK in 2002 and...