{"id":77250,"date":"2016-12-14T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2016-12-14T10:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?guid=ef91837a0ace951f747b342a145a1e12"},"modified":"2016-12-14T10:38:00","modified_gmt":"2016-12-14T10:38:00","slug":"news-story-personal-tax-account-celebrates-its-first-birthday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/?p=77250","title":{"rendered":"News story: Personal Tax Account celebrates its first birthday"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"govspeak\">\n<p>The Personal Tax Account marks its first birthday today, 14 December, and in that time, it has already revolutionised the way customers interact with HMRC.<\/p>\n<p>In its first year, the Personal Tax Account already has more than seven million users and there have been millions of transactions including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>1.6 million Income Tax repayments, worth more than \u00a3800 million<\/li>\n<li>1 million tax credit renewals<\/li>\n<li>100,000 people check or update their company car details<\/li>\n<li>1.6 million people checking their tax estimate<\/li>\n<li>2 million people checking their state pensions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a rel=\"external\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6eNRmY4X1TQ\">Ruth Owen, Director General of Customer Services HMRC, explains the benefits of using your Personal Tax Account<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Personal Tax Account is designed to be one stop shop for all customer interactions with HMRC and customers using it can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>check their state pension<\/li>\n<li>complete and return a Self Assessment tax return<\/li>\n<li>update tax credits circumstances as they change throughout the year to prevent under and overpayments<\/li>\n<li>claim an Income Tax refund that will be paid straight into their bank account so they don\u2019t have to wait 14 days for a cheque in the post<\/li>\n<li>check and update their Marriage Allowance.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The Personal Tax Account is one aspect of HMRC\u2019s digital transformation, which aims to create the most digitally advanced tax authority in the world. Accessing yours takes just five minutes and can be done <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gov.uk\/personal-tax-account\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HMRC\u2019s revolutionary online service marks the first year since its launch.<\/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\/77250"}],"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=77250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mostafa.openonline.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}