Applications must be made to student finance bodies for both tuition loans and maintenance loans. Some students will need to include information from tax returns and tax forms to support their applications. This page explains what tax information you may need to complete these forms. If you need ...

This page explains how and when you make repayments on your student loans via the tax system if you are on Plan 1, Plan 2, Plan 4 or Plan 5 income-contingent loans. 

This page is for people who are unable to pay their tax bill or who have tax debt. If you have received an overpayment of tax credits or have a tax credits debt, you should look at Tax credits: overpayments page in our benefits section.

The Pay As You Earn (PAYE) system is a method of paying income tax on certain types of income. If you pay tax under PAYE on some of your income, tax is deducted at source on that income. This means you receive it net of tax.

When you receive state benefits, it can be difficult to understand how you pay any tax due on them. This page explains how tax on taxable state benefits interacts with the Pay As You Earn (PAYE) system.

If HMRC discover you have not declared tax they think you owe, they may issue a discovery assessment to try and collect that tax.