TRA application revisions

TRA has revised its application process, as of 20th February.

They have moved over to a template submission process.

For self employed applications, instead of statutory declarations and client references, a self employment template must be completed.

For direct employment, written references are no longer accepted. Instead, applicants must complete an employment template.

Applications can now be submitted electronically - emailed with attachments.

Regards,

Richard

Hi Richard,

I am going through the process of gathering documents for TRA assessment and just realised that new 2017 guidelines book is half of the size of 2015 guidelines - just 15 pages.

How do you think they expect us to attach the additional evidence for each period of self-employment? Merged into one pdf - form, bank statements, tax returns 2014-2015, Invoices, accountant statements. Then same for 2012-2013, etc.?

In the UK we have our tax year ending on 5th April, therefore Tax documents are per year with different earnings. Shall we combine all years of self-employment as one period or shall we provide self-employment form for each year of employment stating income for each tax year.

Or maybe we can average all of the income during the years and fill that information in income section and choose 1st day of self-employment and last day of self-employment over the years.

Nonetheless there is no option to choose end date of self-employment as present. Field accepts only date format.

On the same topic, some areas of self-employment in the UK doesn't require business certificate. And it seems like all fields in the self-employment are mandatory, compared to 2 choices from employment.

Any input will be highly appreciated.

G.

Submitted from my mobile, please excuse my brevity.