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by crazytopu » Sat Aug 15, 2015 12:53 pm
I've been a silent reader of this forum and many thanks to everyone who has been actively trying to help people like us.
I had my ILR premium appointment yesterday at Solihull. It was on 10 years long residency route but they held my paper telling me as follows:
1. During my self employment whatever I had submitted doesn't match up with the HMRC record.
They have made me sign and date a document which states things like - I do object to their claim and I confirm all my tax matters are up to date with HMRC.
I had an argument with the case worker who seemingly do not understand the tax matters very well but insists that she is right.
Things she said was:
1. The year you submitted your tax return to Home office for your visa extension - is when we expect to see your tax up to date with HMRC
My argument was: it would never match for the same year if you are looking for the payment with HMRC as we are allowed to submit our tax return a few months after the tax year has ended and subsequently can pay the bill. So, for example my tax year was 09-10 and 10-11 (as I submitted my home office paper in June) it fell in the middle of two tax years. Therefore, I had submitted two tax returns to HMRC 09-10 and 10-11 and cleared all my payments in 2012.
2. She said she understand what HMRC says to its client is correct, which is that they allow the business owners to pay Tax at a later date but she again insists Home office must see a matching record.
My argument was: They can't dictate to change the tax year as this is defined by HMRC. It's as if HMRC is dictating Home office who to give visa and how to conduct their business. Secondly, I said - in one hand you are saying you are relying on HMRC data to verify my tax statement and at the same time you are refusing to accept what HMRC deem as perfectly legitimate and valid (i.e pay at a later date).
After a long discussion I had submitted my tax payment receipt with HMRC reference number, all the relevant documents (such as invoice, bank statement etc during my self employment period).
She said she will verify them and may take from 2 days to 2 weeks no one knows.
Meanwhile, I am about to order my SA302 form from hmrc. If anybody has any suggestions what I should be preparing for and any insights what could go wrong here?