Question to the HM Treasury:

To ask the Chancellor of the Exchequer, how many self-assessment forms in respect of the tax year 2019-2020 have been submitted late as at 19 March 2021; and how that compares with the volume of late returns (a) in total, and (b) 19 March in each of the last ten years.

HMRC do not have complete figures readily available for the number of self-assessment forms submitted late.

Taxpayers who are sent a notice to file after 31 October will have a filing deadline after 31 January.

It would take additional processing to establish precisely which returns are late, and additional analysis to separate paper returns from some other types of Income Tax Self-Assessment contact in HMRC’s administrative data.