As part of the financial disclosure I've been asked to provide information on my mortgage affordability ie how much I can borrow.
Unfortunately as a small sole trader I've been told by the financial advisor who arranged our mortgage that unfortunately my borrowing capacity is zero based on past years tax returns.
I can't find a formal way of reporting this without paying almost £400 for a report. I am very skint and really don't want to spend money that I don't have just to show I can't borrow anything.
Given that my submitted tax returns are available for all to see I'd hope that was proof enough.
Can anyone suggest any way of doing this without paying for a report please?
Going forward my self employed earnings will improve as business picked up after covid and I have increased my hours. I am doing all I can to maximise my earnings, but I'm not sure even that will help my mortgage affordability as I have a dependent son (not exHs biological child) to support on my own so my living expenses are quite high. Also I'm conscious that mortgage affordability for self employed people is based on past earnings submitted to hmrc only, so the fact that earnings have increased won't be taken into account.