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Dear HMRC, Thank you for your response. I have taken this upagain with my accountant, and the feedback I received was as follows: "The answer you refer to is when the return has not been filed and you want to use prior losses after the four years when not claimed in a tax return. In this case we will be filing the tax returns with the losses in of which will be carried forward. I have completed this multiple times. If we were not to file the 17/18 return then the losses cannot be used for the 20/21 return." Is the account correct? If I file my tax return for 17/18 now in June 2024, can I carry a capital loss forward? Thanks

Good day, I will be submitting a filing to HMRC for undisclosed crypto capital gains from 20/21. Gains for previous years are as follows: 17/18 - loss of £1,500 18/19 - loss of £1,300 19/20 - gain of £1,000 20/21 - gain of £26,000 When submitting my tax declaration of 20/21, can I offset the losses from 17/18 and 18/19 (i.e. £1,500 and £1,300) from my gain of £26,000? So in actual fact my gain for 20/21 would be £26,000 - £1,500 - £1,300 = £23,200? Many thanks

Good morning, I recently became aware that I owe tax for gains made using a crypt trading bot. The bot is a dollar cost averaging bot, which will split say £200 into £40 amounts, and buy as the crypto price falls. The bot then then sells when it reaches an average 2% profit. - Because of the high number of layers, in 20/21 the bots made about 17,000 transactions. Total gains were £26,487. - In 21/22, the bots made £9,393 in gains from 4,000 transactions. - in 22/23, the market fell heavily, and I made a loss of £35,680. As background, I am not a professional trader (I have a full time job); I would spend about an hour a day setting up the bots; I only used my own money, I don't have a business and nor a business plan. I only used the bots because I thought they would be safe to use. Many of the bot trades were within the same day, some over a few days, and a few over a number of months. I read somewhere that if you undertake a high number of transactions, this could be considered as "trading". I would like to know whether the gains from this type of bot are considered to be "trading" and hence subject to 40% income tax, or, if it would be considered capital gains, and subject to 20% capital gains tax over the allowance of £12,300. Thank you.

Good after, I wanted to confirm that my understand of CGT is correct. In the 23/24 tax year, I have been buying and selling shares in a normal Trading 212 account (i.e. non-ISA account). If on the last day of the tax, 5 April 2024, I sell all my shares, and then on the first day of the tax year for 24/25 (i.e. 6 April 2025) I transfer my funds to a Trading212 ISA account, and buy the same quantity of shares but in a Trading 212 ISA account, does that mean: 1. for Tax year 23/24 I should pay capital gains tax on all realised gains achieved in my normal (non-ISA) Trading212 account, 2. for Tax year 24/25 I would not have to pay any capital gains tax on the shares I buy and sell in the Trading212 ISA account (deposit limit of £20,000). I wanted to check my understanding above was correct. Thank you

Thank you for your feedback. I am really concerned that I will get a fine/penalty. I did know that I had to pay taxes over the £12,3000 threshold, but I misunderstood what "realised gains" means -- that's to say, I thought that a person realised a gains when the funds were transferred to their bank account, because then you have realised those funds. I appreciate I misunderstood this and hence did not pay the required tax, but does this mean I will get a fine? Apprecaite you don't have all the details on my case, but any views would be helpful. Thanks

Good day, Back in 2020, I had made a profit of £21,000 from buying and selling cryptos. Unfortunately, in 2021, I moved the amount to the crypto exchange FTX, and added an additional £18,000 in funds. Regrettably, on the FTX exchange I purchased a derivative, which moves 3 times as much as when the price of Bitcoin goes up or down. When Bitcoin dropped in price, this investment lost most of its value. As FTX was then declared bankrupt due to fraud, I was forced to liquidate what little I had left, making a near total loss of £39,000 in 2021. I made the mistake in thinking that I should pay tax on crypto gains when transferring the funds to my bank account, and hence I did not declare the profits on the £21,000 profit. As this is £9,000 above the 20/21 CGT allowance of £12,000, am I correct in thinking that I owe HMRC capital gains tax of approximately 20% £9,000 = £1,800? If this is the case, how do I go about in advising HMRC and paying this tax? This was a genuine error on my side, but I am wondering if I will receive a fine for this? I am working with an accountant to put together detailed records. Also, with regards to the loss of £39,000, is it possible to carry this loss forward and offset against any future gains? If so, how do I advise HMRC of this? What supporting evidence will I need to present? Many thanks

Sorry, I am a bit confused. So will my employer's PAYE reference number indicate to what is my employer's tax office reference number? The Home Office require the tax office reference number of my employer to review my citizenship application. So I just wanted to confirm I am doing the right thing by providing my employer's PAYE reference number?

Thank you, I will ask my employer. When you say "they will have an employer's reference number, attached to their local tax district. " -- what do you call this reference number? Thanks

Hi HMRC, I don't believe it is to do with the national insurnace number, as this is asked previously in the citizenship application form. Please see below extract of questions. So hence my question, does "Tax office reference number" refer to my employer's tax office reference number? thanks What is your current National Insurance number? Employment details Are you currently employed? What is your occupation? Employer or business name Employer or business address Start Date Tax office reference number

Hello, I am in the process of submitting my application to the Home Office for my UK Citizenship application. In one section of the application, I am asked for my employer details and "tax office reference number". My employer is Marks and Spencer, and when I asked HR, they said that M&S' "PAYE reference number" was:....... My question is as to whether the "tax office reference number" is the same thing as a company's "PAYE reference number"? Appreciate this may seem to be a detail, but I would like to ensure my application to the Home Office is accurate, given that the cost of an application in £1400. Many thanks

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