Capital Gains Tax as Credit In Self-Assessment

I filled in my self-assessment return for the year recently, reporting a 2nd property I had sold. Knowing the 60 day limit on paying capital gains tax, I paid the full amount requested into my account within the time limit. However, the money is just sat in the account as credit and HMRC is only taking the Capital Gains Tax payment with my other tax at the end of January. Would I be able to claim the payment back as a repayment into a personal account and hold onto it until January, or will this incur penalties?

Hi Alex Morgan,

You need to use the report and pay for selling UK property and this then gives you a different reference number.
Please refer to Report and pay your Capital Gains Tax.
Once you have done this, you can then ask us to move the payment to the correct reference.

Thank you.