Everyone who does self-assessment tax returns will have received from HMRC a notice to complete a tax return. That happens every year in April.
Tucked away in the small print on the back page is this.
"Please note you'll no longer get a blank tax return from us in the post, and later this year we'll stop sending paper statements"
HMRC are in the process of forcing everyone online - that's why they are doing this.
The blank tax return aspect is irrelevant for me as I do every client online with HMRC anyway.
The cessation of paper statements is a different matter. Virtually everyone waits for those as that's what they use to remind them to pay on time.
I don't know if they will stop sending them out for the July tax bills. Looks certain that they will have by the bills for next January.
I will be alerting clients about this fairly soon. For those who have internet access they should get an online personal tax account set up with HMRC if they haven't done so already. They'll be able to check that themselves as to the tax to pay. I always tell clients what their tax is but that's at the time I do their returns rather than when they have to pay. For those who don't have internet access I'll have to provide them with the amounts to pay and payslips a few weeks before the tax is due.
@~Sparkling Summer~ did you spot this change?