Cfarertax

06/07/2026

If you’ve recently had the pleasure of recovering all the tax paid on your seafarers’ earnings through Cfarertax, you may have noticed a little extra in your bank account.

Not just the rebate you were expecting, but a bit more than that.

Most seafarers understand that they are entitled to reclaim the tax paid on their seafarers’ earnings, but many are unaware of the additional benefits.

When you successfully claim Seafarers’ Earnings Deduction (SED), you automatically free up your personal allowance, currently worth up to £12,570.

This means that if you’ve paid tax on other income, such as occasional shore-based work, part-time employment, or interest earned on savings, you may also be able to recover that tax, provided your total income remains within your available personal allowance.

That’s why many Cfarertax clients ask, “Why is my refund more than I expected?”

https://cfarertax.com/always-a-little-bit-extra/

09/04/2026

Read our latest story about how a seafarer applied for a tax rebate and got £1780 more than they expected!

See if you can too...!

"My P60 said I had paid £11,670 in income tax for the year 2024/25. I clicked all the buttons on the Cfarertax web form and got enough “Yes’s” to submit my application for a rebate utilising the HMRC Seafarers Earnings Deduction scheme. I clicked send and waited with great anticipation of rec...

07/04/2026

When people talk about tax, two words come up again and again, complicated and confusing. With Seafarer Tax, that can feel doubly true. The messroom chat proves it. After the weather and the Wi-Fi, nothing gets more airtime than tax. Sea monsters, huge waves, and pirates usually come third or fourth.

The trouble is, messroom debates often make the fog thicker. Someone mentions a last-minute ferry trip to hit a day count. Someone else swears you must be twelve miles out by midnight on an oil rig. Good stories, not always good guidance.

If you have ever opened the HMRC manual, you will know why people panic. EIM33101 runs to dozens of pages. Read it cover to cover and you are forgiven for thinking the process is both complicated and confusing.

Read more....
https://cfarertax.com/seafarer-tax-is-complicated-and-confusing/

05/04/2026

See if you can get your tax back now on our website: https://cfarertax.com/

01/04/2026

Forms. Day counts. Midnight rules. Travel days. Crew boats. Hotels.

If just reading that makes your head hurt, this one is for you.

Our latest customer story, Making Tax Simpler for Seafarers, is all about cutting through the noise and turning a confusing HMRC process into something that finally feels doable.

No jargon.
No endless searching.

Just plain seafarer English, simple yes-or-no questions, and a route to getting your tax sorted properly.

For one seafarer, it went from total confusion to a clean payslip and zero banding.

Now is the time to look at this too.

If you have been putting it off, read the story and see how simple it can be when it is written by seafarers, for seafarers.

👉 Read more here: https://cfarertax.com/making-tax-simple-seafarers/

17/03/2026

It’s that time of year again!

No, not Christmas.
No, not Easter.
Not even your birthday.

It’s tax return time.

For plenty of people, especially those in business or self-employed, that probably does not feel very exciting right now. January still feels a long way off, and if anything, they are bracing themselves to pay tax rather than get any back.

For seafarers though, it can be a very different story.

Read more in our latest blog:

It’s that time of year again. No, not Christmas. No, not Easter. Not even your birthday. It’s tax return time. For plenty of people, especially those in business or self-employed, that probably does not feel very exciting right now. January still feels a long way off, and if anything, they are b...