Self Assessment as a Director of a foreign company

Hi, I moved to the UK from Hong Kong for more than a year. I am a director of a limited company in Hong Kong, it is solely owned by myself, and I was paid by this as director's fee. I work remotely from home in the UK with my colleagues in their Hong Kong office. The business is all in Hong Kong and not related to the UK. I understand that I need to file my tax return as self-employed for my director's fee income. I noticed that I need to input the incomes and expenses of my company. My questions are: 1. Is it correct that I file my income as self-employed ? 2. I tried to fill in the self assessment online, I noticed that I need to input the incomes and expenses of the company. And some of the fields are not related, such as entertainment. I cannot leave it blank or input "0" , what should I do? 3. The company actually made no profit last year. Is the self-employed tax return based on the company profit/loss or based on the personal income?

Hi,

As your Self Assessment tax return is purely for personal income and capital gains purposes, you should not include any of your company's income and expenses, as this is not your personal income.  
You need to keep your company accounts and income separate from your personal income.
Thank you

Hi, thank you for the clarification. But for the first question, is it a correct way to file the director's fee income as self-employed in Self Assessment?

Hi ,
 

This would normally be employment income and declared on the SA102 .

Thank you .

Thank you for the advice. I tried to input my income as employment income in Self Assessment online. But I need to input PAYE in order to progress further. Since the company has no presence in the UK, it does not have the PAYE number. How should I file the income? Use the paper format SA102 without the PAYE information? Or I need to register my Hong Kong company in the UK and get the PAYE number?

Problem solved. I just input "None" in the online Self assessment. It lets me continue with it. Thank you.