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A record number of taxpayers filed their self assessment tax returns online this year, HMRC have announced.
A total of 5,759,006 people filed online by the 31 January deadline: an increase of more than 50% on the 2008 figure of 3.8 million.
The peak online filing period was between 4pm and 5pm on 30 January, when the Revenue systems registered 37,524 online returns – around ten every second, and almost 10% of the day’s total of 390,000 returns.
Sixty-seven percent of SA tax returns were filed online this year, after more than 9.5 million returns were issued to taxpayers by HMRC.
Financial secretary to the Treasury Stephen Timms said he was ‘delighted that more and more people are recognising the benefits of filing their tax return online’.
Dave Hartnett, the Revenue’s permanent secretary for tax, added: ‘The outstanding popularity of online filing demonstrated by [the] figures is the foundation on which we are transforming the way taxpayers interact with us’.
