My bad, Im new here.Romeo007 wrote:Please refer the below paragraph from UKBA website.
''whether the business from which the earnings are claimed can be shown to exist and be lawfully and genuinely trading;
verification of previous earnings claims with declarations made in respect of the applicant to other Government Departments, including declarations made in respect of earnings claimed by the applicant in previous applications''
Which says they will check the previously claimed earnings and match it with your record at HMRC whether the same amount is filed for tax purposes. If not ,it will come under ''deception'' according to my knowledge.
But would like to make this thread active as few of my friends who are going apply for ILR are concerned about this topic too. They applied to Home Office with salaried and self-employment and showed 40K when they did the self-assessment they showed a different amount to avoid the tax to HMRC. Luckily they got the Tier-1 Extension , but now they are nervous because when they go for ILR Home Office might check their previous records and reject them for faking the income and claiming points.