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Using HMRC’s online personal accounts

14 January 2020 / Neil Warren
Issue: 4727 / Categories: Comment & Analysis
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Uncharted waters

Key points

  • It is simple and quick to open a personal tax account with HMRC.
  • The account shows basic taxpayer information but finer details have to be accessed separately.
  • HMRC should consider including more information on taxpayers’ business tax accounts.


Some say there is no such thing as coincidence. They are wrong! A few weeks ago I was reading Andrew Hubbard’s ‘This week’ column about online personal tax accounts with HMRC (Taxation 12 December 2019 page 5) and realised that I knew neither what information they contained nor how to log into them. No problem I thought my private clients have very straightforward tax affairs so there is nothing to be gained from researching this issue further. Between you and me most...

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