Personal Tax account is an HMRC initiative that aims to consolidate all your tax details at a single place so that you can register, file, pay or update your HMRC income tax Information from any place and at anytime as long as you have an internet connection. It works similar to the online tax account for businesses that facilitates small and medium businesses with their tax registration and payments, VAT, self assessment and PAYE for employers.
Personal tax account has also been compared to online banking and it helps manage your tax affairs more efficiently. The latest systems at HMRC tax account trigger secure messages to all those registered in income tax personal accounts system as reminders for nearing deadlines. It is a part of Gov.UK verify system that ensures online verifications for digital services like tax, self assessment and driving licence information for renewal, issuance and ticketing.
HMRC Personal Tax Account is a smart initiative that allows you to verify your tax code, calculate your estimated tax due, change or update your registered address, officially allow some one to manage your tax details or ask for permission to help someone else with their taxation details. You can use CitizenSafe for safe and authorised access to your personal tax account or any other digital service under Government management.
CitizenSafe is a certified partner of Gov.UK Verify. For a convenient use, you can also download the CitizenTax application from iTunes or GooglePlay . This application will cover things like personal taxes, self assessment, inheritance tax and net salary calculations. It makes otherwise confusing things simpler and easier and ensures the privacy and confidentiality of all your personal details provided in the system.
Personal Tax Account has been expanded to include national insurance, state pensions, child benefits and tax credits also. This means you can see how a change in any of above will affect your tax position. Other services include online update of any forms that you may have submitted with HMRC, applying for marriage licence or notifying HMRC to stop issuing you paper notices and deliver online notifications only.
As of now, personal tax account helps you just with completing tax details and calculating expected tax. Currently, you cannot pay the tax through this system yet. However, when the system is thoroughly implemented by 2020, it will include pay-as-you-go tax payment options that will help you avoid a single large tax payment annually and manage your cash flow with smaller and frequent tax payments.
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