Originally written by Timothy Adler on Small Business
One million of the UK’s 4.5m self-employed face having to prepay tax bills higher than what they actually earned this year.
Many freelancers pay self-assessment tax bills on account twice a year, with the first prepayment falling due this January.
This is despite the Covid pandemic decimating many self-employed profits since March.
>See also: MPs to fight Sunak over move to hike national insurance for self-employed
The problem is that prepayments are based on the previous year’s profits, in this case what the self-employed earned in 2019-20 – before the pandemic hit.
TaxScouts, an online self-assessment tax service provider, estimated 1m people could be hit with an inflated tax bill because payment on account is based on the previous year’s earnings.
“While this is well and good in normal times, it doesn’t take into consideration the huge loss of earnings that so many of the self employed will have faced during the pandemic,” said TaxScouts.
However, anticipating the problem, HMRC has allowed the self-employed to defer payment on account and to request a reduction in their tax bill if they are facing financial difficulty and know their earnings will be down.
>See also: MPs urge Government to do more to help
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