Michael W

Thanks to confirm do I owe tax on the pension amount? I’ve been sent a letter from HMRC with the following options: 1. I need to bring my tax affairs up to date. I will declare all my outstanding UK tax using H M R C ' s WorldwideDisclosureFacility. 2. I have not declared my overseas income and/or gains as they are covered by personal allowances or reliefs. 3.I have not declared my overseas income and/or gains as they are not liable to UK tax Please can you help me proceed?

I am a UK citizen and recently received a notification from HMRC asking me to review my foreign income. I lived and worked in the US where I contributed to a 401k account. When I returned to the UK in 2020 I withdrew my full balance from the US pension and paid US tax. I did not declare this as income to HMRC on my self assessment as I believe it was not taxable based on Article 17 Statement 2: Notwithstanding the provisions of paragraph 1 of this Article, a lump-sum payment derived from a pension scheme established in a Contracting State and beneficially owned by a resident of the other Contracting State shall be taxable only in the first-mentioned State. My question is should I have declared this and is it subject to tax in the UK?