Tax Year End Hub

Tax Year End 2023/2024 is fast approaching

Make sure everything goes smoothly by checking out our key dates and practical tips.

Key Dates

 

2024 Deadlines (to reach us by)
Activity to be actioned for 2023/2024 tax year

5:30pm Monday 18 March 2024

For SIPPs that don't have cash available:

Requesting income payments

OR

Submitting SIPP benefit payment forms

5:30pm Friday 22 March 2024

For SIPPs that do have cash available:

Requesting income payments

OR

Submitting SIPP benefit payment forms

5:30pm Friday 22 March 2024

ISA declarations

New client applications

Instructions to move available cash from GIAs

5:30pm Tuesday 26 March 2024

Bed and ISA trade requests - Funds

5:30pm Thursday 28 March 2024

Bed and ISA trade requests - Equities

(If you're selling a mix of funds and equities you'll need to adhere to the earlier time scale.)

5:00pm Thursday 4 April 2024

Payments in via cheque, if necessary

(We strongly recommend sending payments by BACS, rather than cheque)

(If the payment is for an ISA account please make sure your client has a valid ISA declaration in place before sending the payment)

11:59pm Friday 5 April 2024

Payments in via BACS (all accounts)

Payments might not be applied the same day but ones applied will show as received 5 April.

We'll be closed during the public holidays on Friday 29 March and Monday 1 April and this has been accounted for in the above deadlines. 

Please note, these deadlines are based on the instructions or requests being submitted cleanly with everything we need to process them (for example, when a payment is sent then the commitment has been set up in advance). Read on for tips on how to submit business. 

Tax planning support 

Tools

Don’t forget, you have access, via the Platform, to a range of financial planning tools developed by the M&G Wealth technical experts. There are several you may find particularly useful at this time of year - Salary Sacrifice Calculator, Annual Allowance Calculator, Tax Relief Modeller, Bond Gain Tool and CGT tool.

Check out the full range next time you’re logged into the Platform – just go to the ‘Tools Hub’.

Log into the Platform

How to: check ISA declaration status and remaining allowance

  • Locate your client on the platform.
  • On their ISA, click the ‘View account’ button.
  • It’ll show their ISA declaration status and how much allowance is available to use this year in the ‘Account Summary’ box.

If a client has more than one ISA account then the ISA Remaining Allowance will show the amount available in total across all their ISAs.

To check available subscription for multiple clients, download the ‘available ISA/ JISA subscription report’, found in the Reporting Hub on the platform.

Please note, we only show what a client has available on the M&G Wealth Platform. If a client has an ISA elsewhere please take that into consideration while calculating any remaining allowance.

How to: update your client’s ISA declaration

If your client is making a payment into their ISA for this tax year they need to have a valid ISA declaration in place.

To update a declaration, please give us a call or send us an email to let us know your client wants to pay into their ISA. We’ll send a declaration to the client as a confirmation, but nothing needs to be completed or signed.

For junior ISAs, you won’t need to update the declaration, as declarations roll over each tax year until the child turns 18.

How to: carry out a Bed and ISA

  • First, place the trades in your client’s GIA by going to the GIA and clicking on ‘Sell’
  • Once the trades have settled, instruct a cash movement from the GIA to the ISA by going to the Client page and selecting ‘Move Cash’
  • When the money has moved across, you can then buy the assets in the ISA, by going to ISA and clicking on the ‘Buy’

If you’ve requested an initial fee, we’ll deduct this charge the day after the investment. So, if the ISA is self-funding, you need to make sure that you leave enough cash, within the Account, to cover the ISA charge.

How to: make a payment

Raise the commitment

Raise a commitment using ‘Add money in’ on the intended client’s account.

 Remember, when adding a commitment make sure:

  • The commitment amount exactly matches the payment amount
  • You raise one commitment for each payment
  • You select the right method of payment (i.e. cheque or direct credit [BACS])
  • You capture any investment strategies or fees that apply to the payment
Send the payment

We recommend your clients send BACS, rather than cheque. Our bank details are:

Account Name

Investment Funds Direct Ltd

Sort Code

40-02-50

Account Number

31233645

Payment reference

Client’s Platform account number (usually starts with an “A”)

 

Please make sure your clients know the correct reference to put on the payment.

Following these steps means we can allocate payments more quickly. Correctly set up payments can be automatically added to accounts on the day we receive them, and any investments or fees you’ve included when you set up the commitment can be placed straight away.

If you’ve requested an initial fee, we’ll deduct this charge the day after the investment. So, if the ISA is self-funding, you need to make sure that you leave enough cash in the cash allocation section, within the Account investment strategy screen, to cover the ISA charge.

How to: set up a new client

Go to the New Business tab on the platform homepage. Go to ‘Create new client (all products) and SIPP Illustrate & Apply’ and click ‘Create client’. You’ll be prompted to enter the client information, and once you’ve filled everything out, documents will be automatically generated and sent to the client via DocuSign.

Contact us

If you've got further questions, please contact Customer Services on 0345 076 6140 Monday to Friday, 8:30am to 5:30pm or by email.

Tax Year End support from M&G Wealth


M&G Wealth have a wide range of tools and technical resources to make your tax planning job easier.

Visit the M&G Wealth Tax Year End Hub