Money Box Live: How to fill out your tax return
Money Box
BBC
4.2 • 825 Ratings
🗓️ 8 February 2023
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
As 31st January looms, there’s less than one month left for around 5.7 million Self Assessment customers to file their tax return or they may face a penalty.
More than 12 million customers are expected to file a tax return for the 2021 to 2022 tax year by 31 January 2023 (HMRC).
Whether you’re doing it for the first time this year, or not, we have the answers to all your tax-related questions.
On this episode, we hear from experts, Clare Merrills, from HMRC, and Anita Monteith, Head of Taxation Policy, at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
Presenter: Felicity Hannah Producer: Amber Mehmood Editor: Jess Quayle
(First broadcast 3pm, Wednesday 11th January, 2023)
Transcript
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| 0:43.3 | Welcome to the podcast of Moneybox Live, the program about your money. |
| 0:46.9 | Today, it's all about tax returns. |
| 0:49.2 | Now, for some people, including me, that is about as welcome as a root canal. |
| 0:53.7 | But here at Moneybox Live, I promise we will |
| 0:55.8 | make the procedure as painless as possible. And you know what? We were a bit worried that a program |
| 1:00.9 | on tax risks being a bit off-putting. So the Moneybox Live team were trying to pick some music |
| 1:06.0 | that is particularly relevant to tax. And there is quite a lot. There's the Beatles, the kinks, |
| 1:10.7 | a surprising number of songs about tax. So there is quite a lot. There's the Beatles, the kinks, a surprising |
| 1:11.5 | number of songs about tax. So stick around to the end. We will play our favourite tax-related record. |
| 1:17.7 | But let's meet today's experts. I'm joined by Claire Meryl from HMRC and Anita Montief, |
| 1:22.9 | head of taxation policy at the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales. |
| 1:27.8 | Between the two of you, we should be able to answer absolutely anything. |
| 1:30.9 | Panel, good afternoon. |
| 1:31.9 | Good afternoon, let's hope we can. |
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