How Fares the Banana Reclamation?

I wrote at the start of the year about my parlous experience with the British tax and student loan authorities, whilst resulted in me being on the hook for several thousands of pounds in the previous tax year. My goal is to reclaim almost every single penny of that… …but the bastards won’t make it easy. As a reminder: when we last left our intrepid hero (i.e., me), I had three avenues of reclamation ongoing: amending my tax return for 2024–25 UK tax year, where I had overstated my foreign-earned income and understated my foreign-paid tax Goal: reduce my 2024–25 Income Tax due after tax reductions from £3,011.40 to as little as possible demanding that the SLC tell HMRC that I’ve double-paid for my loan repayments Goal: reduce my 2024–25 student loan repayments due from £2,323 to £0 telling HMRC that I will owe them nothing in the 2025–26 UK tax year 2025–26 (or, I hope, ever after) Goal: reduce my predicted 2025–26 Income Tax due from £3,011.40 to £0 …for a total paid of £8,345.80,…