Tax Rates 2012/13 Article Discussion

hi there,
l really want to sort sth which is l have wrong tax code.l am a master-full time student and l have student visa which allows only 20 hour a week.this is the case my tax code is BR l am sure this is wronge.l have been working at hotel from feb 2010 and at that time l started to pay tax.
what can l do?how can l cahange it?

zooma wrote: »

hi there,
l really want to sort sth which is l have wrong tax code.l am a master-full time student and l have student visa which allows only 20 hour a week.this is the case my tax code is BR l am sure this is wronge.l have been working at hotel from feb 2010 and at that time l started to pay tax.
what can l do?how can l cahange it?

BR stands for basic rate taxation. which means you are taxed on every penny you earn and have no personal allowances such as £6450 personal allowance before you pay tax. contact the tax office to sort it out.

I wonder if anyone can give me some advice. My husband left the military in March 2008. Since he left he has never had a year where the tax is paid correctly. He went straight to a job in March 2008 so had employment earning £50,000 plus a military pension of £12368. In Mar 2008 he was sent tax code 522. In April 2008 he was sent a tax code of 543L. In July he was sent K1568. In Sep 2008 he was advised of tax code K1508.His P60 for 2008/09 for Paymaster shows his final tax code as K1508 M1 with 4756.40 of tax deducted. His P60 for salary shows £55,710 and tax deductions of £12908.40 In April 2009 a notification was sent with DO MI as the tax code. In November 2009 he received a tax code of K2063 for tax year 2009/2010 then on November 15 he received another stating K1453. Paymaster then sent an account saying his new code would be K1435 and around 43% was deducted from his pension. In January 2010 a further code of K2485 was received for the year 2010/2011.His paymaster P60 showed his final code as K1435 M1 with £5,111 deducted. His final salary for 2009/10 was 52049.88 and tax deducted amounted to £15,859. Throughout this employment he also had a salary sacrifice scheme for pension. He was also entitled to private health care. In April 2010 he changed jobs with a salary drop to £35,000 but the pension remained the same, although he now receives another pension of £476pa. He received notification from Paymaster that his new code was K2485 and 50% was deducted from his pension payments. Unfortunately we can't find documents for this year at the moment. In 2011/12 his pension figure remains the same but his salary has increased to £46,000. On January 17 he received notification of a change of tax code from K256 to K742 for 2011/2012. On January 18 another notification arrived with a revision of 2009/10 calculation saying that they had under calculated that years by £919.60 as they hadn't included medical payment of 1167, apparently we also owed £614.60 from a previous year? We had another letter on the same day stating that for 2010/11we also were underpaid because of medical insurance of £150. They are also saying that the amount outstanding from 2008-2010 has not been collected so we now owe £1334.20. On January 28 we received another notice for 2012/13 for tax code K1189. We wrote to them asking why we have had these discrepancies since my husband left the Navy, received no reply and apparently they have a month to reply. When asked why this has been allowed to accrue and has been wrong for 4 years we were told that they only set the code if it isn't acted upon by the employer or Paymaster general then that's between us and our employer/pension provider. Is this right? (Sorry for the lengthy description).