Nowadays my only income is from interest on Uk bank accounts (all know I'm a tax payer) or my PAYE job. How do I persuade HMRC of this so that they stop inventing advance tax charges for me to pay?
thanks in advance if you can help.
Long story :
For a few yrs I had some freelance income, max. ever was about £2500/yr. So I registered to self-assess.
In 2013 I got a PAYE job & had to wait 12 or 18 months to file Self-assess taxes, thought I was done with self-assess forever, in late 2014.
Early 2016 I got a notice from HMRC that I MUST file. I rang up to say not needed but they asked about my foreign bank account interest, which I forget because it's so little. So I filed self-assd taxes after all (b/c of £9 of interest earned, and I had to pay a £100 late fee). I moved the foreign money to non-interest bearing account before April 2016.
I sweated buckets to get a recent HMRC msg that I must log on to check messages... I logged on (after giving them password & a code they texted my phone & confirming most of my passport details) to find a £36 "balance of payment" charge I need to pay by 31 January. That seems to be an assumed tax payment for the future.
Tomorrow when I don't feel so tired I will try to file all my UK taxes for 2015-16 & pay 30p on the probably £6 of undeclared foreign income, so hopefully the £36 won't be payable... but maybe it will. Feck if I know. Does anyone understand this stuff?