Additional income: reporting income beyond property and self-employment

Additional Income & Reliefs is the hub where you report taxable income beyond your property and self-employment, such as savings interest, dividends, employment, and pensions. It sits alongside your property and self-employment totals, ready for your Final Declaration. The income types you can report appear as cards on the page, and that set grows over time.

What Additional Income & Reliefs is

Most landlords and sole traders have some income beyond their property or business, such as interest from savings, dividends, a job taxed under PAYE, or a pension. Additional Income & Reliefs, at /tax/income, is where you report that income to HMRC alongside your property and self-employment totals, ahead of your Final Declaration.

The hub shows a card for each kind of additional income the app can report for you. Which cards appear depends on the tax year and your account, and the set grows as new income types are added, so the page itself is the live list of what you can report. Open the hub and work through the cards that apply to you.

Important: The hub covers the income types it shows as cards, not everything you might earn. If you have income the app does not handle (for example foreign income, capital gains, or partnership or trust income), it will not appear here: report that through HMRC's own services or your accountant so your Final Declaration is complete. See Year-end and your Final Declaration.

Before you start

1. Connect your HMRC account. Every source reads from and writes to HMRC. Until you connect, the hub shows Connect your HMRC account to start reporting with a Connect HMRC button. See Connect your HMRC account.
2. Add your National Insurance Number. These actions resolve your NINO from your HMRC connection and will not run without it. If you see National Insurance Number not configured, add it in your HMRC settings.

Tip: The Additional Income link in the sidebar only appears once HMRC is connected. Before then you can still open the hub directly at /tax/income.

How it works

Every card on the hub follows the same pattern, so once you have used one you know them all:

1. Open the hub. Go to Additional Income in the sidebar, or /tax/income, and pick your tax year with the selector in the header.
2. Pick a card. Each card shows a quick status for the year (for example Not started, a count of items, or an amount recorded), so you can see what is left to do. Click one to open that income type.
3. Review what HMRC holds. Where HMRC already has records for you, they are pre-filled, so you review and correct rather than typing from scratch. Use Sync from HMRC to re-pull the latest.
4. Correct, add, or remove. Adjust the figures, add anything HMRC does not have, and, for HMRC-supplied records, ignore the ones that do not apply to you.
5. Save or submit. Your figures are stored against the tax year and feed into your Final Declaration.

You only touch the cards that apply to you; leave the rest alone. Each one carries into your year-end filing automatically.

Note: Some income is reported in context elsewhere rather than as a hub card. For example, a company directorship is declared under Employment, at /tax/directorship.

Availability

Additional Income is available on Free and MTD Lite, with no extra charge on either plan. Every source reads from and writes to HMRC, so you need a connected HMRC account with your National Insurance Number on file.

If something goes wrong

• The 'Additional Income' link is missing from the sidebar. The link only shows once HMRC is connected. Connect HMRC in Settings > HMRC, or open /tax/income directly in the meantime. See Connect your HMRC account.
• The hub says 'Connect your HMRC account to start reporting'. You have not finished connecting HMRC. Click Connect HMRC and complete the HMRC sign-in. You can browse the cards beforehand, but figures cannot be saved until you are connected.
• An action says 'National Insurance Number not configured'. Add your National Insurance Number in your HMRC settings, then try again.
• A card shows 'Unable to load status. Refresh to retry'. An HMRC read failed or HMRC was briefly unavailable. Refresh the hub, or open the source page and use its Sync from HMRC control.
• HMRC says you are not signed up for Making Tax Digital. The app keeps your records and shows a friendly notice. Complete sign-up, then refresh. See Not signed up for MTD yet?.

These income types feed into your year-end filing: see Year-End and your Final Declaration. For anything about which income you must report, allowances, or thresholds, check with HMRC or your accountant, or see the MTD guide.

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