With a month to go until 2024 tax returns have to be filed, help is being offered to the thousands of people who still need to do theirs.
19,385 people have already submitted theirs, with 81% completed online at my.gov.gg, but around 40,000 are expected suggesting only half have been filed so far.
The rest need to be done by the end of Sunday 30 November.
The Revenue Service is hoping most of the remaining returns will be completed online, but paper forms are also available for those who want to do it that way.
Paper forms are available from any parish office, Citizen’s Advice Guernsey (based at Grow Ltd), Guernsey Welfare Service, Age Concern, and from the customer counter at Edward T Wheadon House.
Help to fill in a paper tax return will be available at Sir Charles Frossard House on Saturday 1 November between 08:00 and 14:00.
Paper forms will be available to collect and Revenue Service staff will be on hand to provide support with both the paper forms and with completing online returns, and answering more general tax queries.
More help for completing an online return will be available on Monday 3 November at Edward T. Wheadon House anytime between 08:45 and 16:00.
“For both drop-ins there is no need to book an appointment,” said a spokesperson. “Anyone needing help with their online tax return is asked to please bring along the device that they use to do this, such as a phone, tablet or laptop.”
Assessments and Repayments
While the Revenue Service is asking people to file their 2024 Tax Returns on time, it is still battling through a backlog of assessments and repayments from previous years.
“The Revenue Service apologises for the time it has taken to issue repayments and continues to prioritise this with 3,261 now having been issued this year,” said a spokesperson this week.
Delays with repayments have been down to a change in the system used by the Revenue Service, with the rebates being manually processed.
Staff are also still working through the backlog in assessing tax returns which will determine whether more repayments are necessary.
2020’s returns were deemed to have been ‘finished’ earlier this year, with 2021’s almost complete, and more than three quarters of 2022’s also now finished.
