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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Business
Miles Brignall and Rupert Jones

Self-assessment: tips for filing your UK tax return to avoid risk of a £100 fine

Woman uses online website to do tax return in the UK on an iPad
HMRC can fine taxpayers for up to 30% of the tax due for careless inaccuracies. Photograph: Iain Masterton/Alamy

If you are among the 12.2 million people required to file a self-assessment tax return but are yet to complete it, you’d better get your skates on as there is just over a fortnight to go until the midnight on 31 January deadline.

For the last two years, HMRC has waived the £100 late-filing penalty but those yet to file shouldn’t bank on the same level of goodwill this year, the accountancy firm BDO is warning.

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