{"id":53197,"date":"2015-01-31T13:00:03","date_gmt":"2015-01-31T13:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=97ad41d28374cc64258f78d2e1606f9f"},"modified":"2015-01-31T13:00:03","modified_gmt":"2015-01-31T13:00:03","slug":"news-story-hmrcs-top-5-tips-for-completing-your-tax-return","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=53197","title":{"rendered":"News story: HMRC&#8217;s top 5 tips for completing your tax return"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>HM Revenue and Customs\u2019 (<abbr title=\"HM Revenue and Customs\">HMRC<\/abbr>) top 5 tips for completing your Self Assessment tax return are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Get started \u2013 don\u2019t leave it to the last minute and don\u2019t miss the deadline (midnight on 31 January)<\/li>\n<li>Have all your papers ready \u2013 for example:\n<ul>\n<li>if you are employed, your P60 or your P11D (if you have one)<\/li>\n<li>if you are self-employed, your accounts and records of expenses<\/li>\n<li>if you have savings, any records of interest received<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t forget to press the \u2018Submit\u2019 button (you may need to scroll down the page to press the button) and wait for your confirmation code<\/li>\n<li>Don\u2019t forget to pay \u2013 it is the payment deadline and not just the tax return deadline. There are many ways to pay <abbr title=\"HM Revenue and Customs\">HMRC<\/abbr>, with all the details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/pay-self-assessment-tax-bill\">available online<\/a>\n<\/li>\n<li>Keep in touch \u2013 <a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hmrcgovuk\">follow us on Twitter<\/a> for advice and alerts about when it is a good time to call us<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Log in and file your Self Assessment online on GOV.UK: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/log-in-file-self-assessment-tax-return\">https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/log-in-file-self-assessment-tax-return<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruth Owen, Director General Personal Tax, HMRC, has shared the top 5 tips for completing your Self Assessment return.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53197"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53197"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53197\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}