can I keep using "business tax account"?

I had not run any business/company/sole trader, but have created business tax account by mistake, I have paid tax last year with this account for my rental income. Going forward can I keep using this account type or do I need to cancel it and then register a "personal tax account"? From HMRC website the tax rate is same for both account types as long as I am not running a business, company or as a trader and no corporate tax are required. I am about to file my 2024-2025 tax return so I would like to do it correctly. Thank you for your help.

I'm just a member of the public, but looking at what the HMRC website shows me, I have *one* HMRC/Government Gateway account, and "Business tax account" and "Personal tax account" are just slightly misleadingly named separate sets of web pages all actually accessed from within one actual account, rather than two sets of login details. On my view of https://www.tax.service.gov.uk/business-account there are two large tiles, one headed "Self Assessment", which rather redundantly seems to just provide a different view of various information about my personal self assessment, and another tile headed "Personal tax account" which just provides a link to https://www.tax.service.gov.uk/personal-account Do you have the same? If you are unable to follow a link to your personal tax account, then my best guess is that your login information is only linked to your Self Assessment tax, but is missing some information (perhaps your national insurance number?) to allow you to also access information about your PAYE, National Insurance, State Pension, etc. If so, try setting this up via https://www.gov.uk/personal-tax-account and if that doesn't help try getting in touch with HMRC e.g. https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/hm-revenue-customs/contact/online-services-helpdesk Don't try to cancel your existing account unless you have an actual HMRC representative telling you it is necessary - it's more likely this can be resolved by linking your existing account to additional services.

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It should be on a personal tax account as you will need this going forward for making tax digital . Thank you .

Thank you, will apply for a personal tax account