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> if you're in a nice straightforward salaried job you won't have to use it at all.

Until you have the gall to (god forbid) open a side business. After that, you'll forever be forced to file a tax return, even if you go back to being a regular employee. Because fuck entrepreneurship, amirite?

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You can close a self employed tax account in the U.K. You'll have to file VAT and Tax info for that tax year but that's about it.

If you do not go through the process and close your income tax, NI and VAT accounts then yes you need to file them even if you no longer have a side business in practice.

It's a single phone call to cancel self-assessment for income tax and national insurance. Probably a second to cancel a VAT registration, but I've never had to do that.

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