Self assessment
Responding to a written question in the House of Commons as to whether the government would extend the deadline of 31 October for self-assessment paper returns for older people in residential care who were unable to obtain their usual help because of Covid-19 social distancing measures Jesse Norman said HMRC had no plans to extend the deadline but would ‘take a sympathetic view where the impact of Covid-19’ on a taxpayer’s circumstances caused them to miss the filing date.