What can you use your personal tax account to do?
• check your Income Tax estimate and tax code • fill in, send and view a personal tax return • claim a tax refund • check and manage your tax credits • check your State Pension • track tax forms that you’ve submitted online • check or update your Marriage Allowance • tell HMRC about a change of address • check or update benefits you get from work, for example company car details and medical insurance • find your National Insurance number
…with more services to be added in the future!
When did you last check the details held within your Personal Tax Account?
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Data protection - HMRC appropriate policy document 16 May 2019
The Data Protection Act 2018 requires organisations who process personal data to meet certain legal obligations. HMRC’s appropriate policy document provides information about the legal basis and safeguards that the department has put in place to be compliant with the GDPR. The Data Protection Act 2018 requires organisations who process personal data to meet certain legal obligations. HMRC’s appropriate policy document provides information about the legal basis and safeguards that the department has put in place for sensitive processing, the processing of special categories of personal data and criminal convictions data.
The HMRC appropriate Policy document outlines where the processing of special categories of personal data, criminal convictions data and sensitive personal data is required for:
• performing or exercising obligations or rights, which are imposed or conferred by law on the controller or the data subject in connection with employment, social security or social protection • reasons of substantial public interest • archiving, research and statistical purposes • law enforcement purposes
Additionally, it provides information about the safeguards that HMRC has put in place in accordance with the Data Protection principles, including its policy for the retention and erasure of personal data.
HMRC appropriate Policy document
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HMRC Telephone Scam Warning 22 May 2019
We have been alerted to yet another telephone scam where an automated phone call says that the individual is in the middle of a fraud investigation and is to ring a specific number.
The Chartered Institute of Payroll Professionals
Payroll: need to know
cipp.org.uk
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