Personal, Business, and Trust Tax Support

Error: Self-employment with more than one accounting period in Personal Tax

Scenario

You may get the following error message when you file self-employment pages.
Error message
Advisory 1) Form: Self-employment (instance 2). An instance of Self-employment exists with more than one accounting period in the basis period being assessed and only the pages for the latest accounting period will be submitted. The additional pages will need to be manually added as a PDF attachment.

Cause

You have not complied with HMRC's requirements, which are set out in HMRC Special 8 (Trust Special 3) and state the following:
Where there is more than one set of accounts for the basis period, separate Self Employment pages should be completed for each set of accounts. One set of Self Employment pages should be completed with details of the latest accounting period and FSE66 to FSE82 as appropriate, should be completed to arrive at the taxable profit for the basis period. Additional Self Employment pages for any other accounting periods should be submitted as an attachment with an explanation given in white space (additional information).'

Solution

You'll need a PDF printer installed.
  1. Select
    Form
    , then
    Edit Tax Return
    .
  2. Right-click on the form and select
    Print
     from the context menu.
  3. Change the printer to a PDF printer.
  4. Select
    Print Summary
    , then choose
    Select
    .
  5. Select only the self employment pages relating to the earlier accounting period.
  6. Clear all other checkboxes.
  7. Select
    OK
    .
  8. Save the PDF to the default directory you have already selected for the client's online filing attachment files.
  9. Select
    Edit
    , then
    Schedule Editor
    .
  10. Select
    Other Return Information
    .
  11. Select the
    Online Filing Attachments
     tab.
  12. Select
    Add
    .
  13. Select the PDF you saved earlier to attach it to the return.

This article applies to:

  • Product: Digita Personal Business and Trust Tax