Self-Employment Income Support Scheme: Self-assessment

(asked on 10th March 2021) - View Source

Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, what notice his Department provided to people already in receipt of a Self-Employed Income Support Scheme (SEISS) grant that they would be required to submit their tax return for the 2019-20 financial year by 2 March 2021 to be eligible to apply for the fourth round of grants under that scheme.


Answered by
Jesse Norman Portrait
Jesse Norman
This question was answered on 15th March 2021

The Government announced at Budget 2021 that the Self-Employment Income Support Scheme (SEISS) will continue until September, with a fourth and a final fifth grant.

This means more than 600,000 people are brought into scope who either became self-employed in 2019-20, or were ineligible for previous grants but now may be eligible for the fourth grant on the basis of submitting their 2019-20 Self-Assessment tax return.

HM Revenue & Customs waived the late filing penalty for Self-Assessment tax returns filed online by 28 February to provide relief to taxpayers and agents at a time of unprecedented pressure. The statutory filing deadline of 31 January did not change.

Taxpayers who are registered for Self-Assessment will have been issued with a notice to file their return.

HMRC run a prominent, annual communications campaign to prompt taxpayers to file their return by the due date. This year, in addition, they issued further press releases during February, complemented by messaging via social media and, where possible, direct emails and SMS texts to taxpayers who had not yet filed returns, and their agents.

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