Really hope someone can help and save me a lot of paperwork!!
My husband and I were separately assessed from 2019–2022. He’s self-employed and filed his Form 11s each year, and I’m PAYE. We both paid our own tax as normal.
From 2023 onwards we switched to joint assessment, and since then Revenue is showing a liability for the earlier years, even though as far as we can see everything was already paid.
I’ve had mixed answers from Revenue. One person said it just needs to be “recoded to income tax” and that it’s not a real liability, just something showing wrongly on the system.
But now I’m being told we need to redo paper Form 11s for 2019–2022, which seems a bit mad when the returns were already filed and paid.
They’re saying part of the issue is that my husband was treated as single in 2019, but I don’t see how that would change the actual tax paid if we were separately assessed anyway.
Has anyone come across this? Is paper Form 11 really needed here, or should Revenue be able to sort it internally?