Nearly 1.8m late filers miss tax return deadline

By Graham | February 3, 2021

More than 10.7m taxpayers filed their tax returns by 31 January. Yet nearly 15% didn’t make the deadline. This is almost twice the amount reported last year. On 1st February 2021, the day after the 2019/20 self assessment deadline, HMRC had received 10,743,387 returns (which includes expected returns, unsolicited returns and late registrations). 1.8m were outstanding. …