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Self Assessment: self-employment (short) (SA103S)

Use supplementary pages SA103S to record self-employment income on your SA100 tax return if your annual business turnover was below the VAT threshold for the tax year.

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HM Revenue & Customs
Published:
23 April 2014
Last updated:
6 April 2026
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  1. The self-employment (short) form and notes have been added for tax year 2025 to 2026. The forms and notes for tax year 2021 to 2022 have been removed.

  2. The self-employment (short) form and notes have been added for tax year 2024 to 2025.

  3. The self-employment (short) form and notes have been added for tax year 2023 to 2024.

  4. The Self-employment (short) form and notes have been added for tax year 2022 to 2023.

  5. Links to GOV.UK within the Self employment (short) notes (2022) have been updated.

  6. The Self-employment (short) form and notes have been added for tax year 2021 to 2022. Versions of the form and notes from 2018 have been removed.

  7. The Self-employment (short) form and notes have been added for tax year 2020 to 2021.

  8. The Self-employment (short) form and notes have been added for tax year 2019 to 2020.

  9. The Self-employment (short) form and notes have been added for tax year 2018 to 2019.

  10. The form and notes have been added for tax year 2017 to 2018.

  11. The form and notes have been added for tax year 2016 to 2017.

  12. Rates, allowances and duties have been updated for the tax year 2016 to 2017.

  13. The 2015 to 2016 form has been added to this page.

  14. Added translation

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Self-employment (short) (2026)

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Self employment (short) notes (2026)

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Self-employment (short) (2025)

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Self employment (short) notes (2025)

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Self-employment (short) (2024)

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Self employment (short) notes (2024)

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Self-employment (short) (2023)

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Self employment (short) notes (2023)

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Details

If you’re self employed, have relatively simple tax affairs and your annual business turnover was below the VAT threshold for the tax year, use the SA103S short version of the self-employment supplementary pages when filing your SA100 tax return.

Limit on Income Tax reliefs (Self Assessment helpsheet HS204)

More than one business (Self Assessment helpsheet HS220)

How to calculate your taxable profits (Self Assessment helpsheet HS222)

Check reliefs and rules for farmers and market gardeners (Self Assessment helpsheet HS224)

Relief for trading losses (Self Assessment helpsheet HS227)

Information from your accounts (Self Assessment helpsheet HS229)

Farm stock valuation (Self Assessment helpsheet HS232)

Averaging for creators of literary or artistic works (Self Assessment helpsheet HS234)

Qualifying care relief for carers (Self Assessment helpsheet HS236)

Capital allowances and balancing charges (Self Assessment helpsheet HS252)

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