Letter of Representation – Personal Tax Return (Self Assessment)

An individual’s letter approving their Self Assessment return and confirming complete income, foreign income, capital gains, property, estimates and Making Tax Digital updates.

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Guidance notes included
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Letter of Representation – Personal Tax Return (Self Assessment)

About this document

What it’s for

A letter from an individual taxpayer to your firm confirming that they have approved their Self Assessment return and given you complete information about every source of income and gains – including foreign income, capital gains, property and crypto-assets – together with estimates and their Making Tax Digital status. Includes firm guidance, a tailoring table and a checklist.

When to use it

  • For every personal tax return you prepare, or for higher-risk clients
  • Where the client has foreign income, property, gains, crypto-assets or provisional figures
  • For landlords and others joining Making Tax Digital for Income Tax

What’s inside

The document is laid out in the sections below. Each one comes with a plain-English guidance note explaining what it does and what to change.

  1. Approval of the return
  2. Residence and domicile
  3. Income
  4. Foreign income and assets
  5. Capital gains
  6. Reliefs, allowances and charges
  7. Estimates and provisional figures
  8. Making Tax Digital for Income Tax
  9. Earlier years, HMRC matters and fraud
  10. Specific representations

Also included

  • Part 1 – Guidance for your firm
  • Appendix B – Firm checklist before accepting the letter

How to complete it

  • Choose the residence, foreign income, gains and Making Tax Digital options
  • Complete the estimates table, or delete it
  • Have the client sign personally before you submit

Key points to check

  • Making Tax Digital thresholds, the foreign income and gains regime, and capital gains reporting rules

Our templates are professionally structured starting points for UK businesses, not legal advice. For anything complex, unusual or high-value, have your final version checked by a solicitor.

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