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Benefits to be tested until end of year
The external email pilot launched in March to test the benefits of an email channel for agents to contact HMRC is to run until 31 December.
The scope has been extended to include agent authorisation: for example, the ability to scan in a signed form 64-8 and email it to the Revenue and employer, such as notification of a PAYE scheme closing.
Other topics relating to self assessment and PAYE include:
- capital loss claims;
- loss carry back claims;
- negligible value claims;
- overlap relief/transitional relief/terminal loss;
- income and capital gains during the administration period of an estate; and
- statutory instalment arrangements.
By the end of August, 168 agents had signed up to the pilot with 82 agents submitting 413 emails. The majority have been about:
- setting up and closing self assessment records;
- requests for self assessment information;
- chasing self assessment repayments;
- requests to change tax codes; and
- asking for information about PAYE.
