Hi all,
Before I start, I know that everything was my fault, I am just trying to see what grounds I have for an appeal. I feel terrible and ashamed already and penalties will severely affect my financial and professional future.
Long story short - apparently I registered for self assessment when full-time student in 2013 for student job didn't actually end up doing. Looking back at emails, in order to sign up to this company, I needed to give them my UTR, so I think I thought it was the tax equivalent of a national insurance number, so nothing significant needing follow up. I was a full time student 2009-2014 then lived and worked abroad 2014-2018.
2019, am back in UK and just set up a limited company and registered for self assessment, my new details triggered post to be sent to my new address regarding the tax years 2013/14, 2014/15, 2015/16 stating that I have over £5k in penalties to pay due to not filing tax returns.
I honestly don't remember filing for self assessment but I clearly did it naively thinking it was just what you do to get paid for student jobs. Of course I accept responsibility there but it was an honest mistake.
I rang HMRC as soon as I got this letter and they said I had to file for these tax years via post and then appeal them by post if I wanted to.
Does anyone have any view on what to focus on in my appeal? I was thinking the fact that I have never actually worked as self-employed during that time, do not owe any tax, and did not intentionally ignore any correspondence or responsibility. HMRC were clearly sending me post to my old university address. Of course the rule is that you should inform them if you move, but in my ignorant student mind, I had not understood that I was under a different tax status.
Also, should I pay them fine then file my returns and then appeal? Or file and appeal and then what to see about the fines?
Another addition is that they told me that tax years since 2016 have been cancelled as they were made aware of my updated situation. This seems odd to me because I never told them I was no longer self-employed since I hadn't realised that I was registered as self-employed in the first place. The only thing I can think of is that I always told the student loan company when I was employed full time and moved address, but then that would have meant my circumstances changed from 2014, not 2016. Also, if they were using student finance details, then surely they would have seen my updated addresses. Any thoughts on this?
Thanks in advance!
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