Are you self-employed and will have trouble meeting the tax payment deadline?

If you have set up your Government Gateway account you can now ‘self-serve’ to make arrangements to pay your tax bill by instalments. The conditions for this are:

1. You have filed your 2021 tax return
2. What you owe is less than £30,000
3. You are within 60 days of the payment deadline
4. Can pay it off within twelve months of the deadline

Further guidance can be found here https://www.gov.uk/difficulties-paying-hmrc If you can’t set this up yourself, then you will need to telephone HMRC on 0300 200 3822 By setting up a time-to-pay arrangement you will stop interest and surcharges accruing.