No work for two months - tax rebate?

BillTrac

Don't really know if this is worth asking, or if I am wasting mine and everyone else's time.

Never had any time out of work since I was at school. Even then I worked Sats and Suns at the local greyhound stadium.(35 years ago-crikey feel old now)

Anyway, last year I made a complete career error and went from working at a national company to a local company who promised the world. Started only to realise within weeks what a load of lying scumbags they were.

Resigned middle of October, they had last paid me at the end of Sept, and I then spent the next two and a half months looking for a job. They say it's easier to find a job when you already have one, well now I believe it!! Never felt so useless. Had stacks of interviews but very slow in getting responses.

Anyway, found a job that seemed perfect and started beginning of January. Great job, love working for a company that really appreciates the people who work for them.

My question is that can I claim any tax rebate for the time not working? I had to get an emergency tax code from the Inland Revenue in Jan, because the local scumbags "lost" my P45..yeah, right. So my tax was in a bit of a mess, even my new tax code for this year was 22L when it should have been 543l, since had that changed.

Any advice?

Bill

floss2

You should already have had it through PAYE. Check your P60 for the year end figures.....

robnye

you need to look at the last wage slip from the bad ld company, then look at the wage slips from the new company, add the figures together to get an annual figure, then contact the inland revenue, when you started with the new company, they should have got you to complete a P46, that should have sorted out the tax code for the new company.

did you receive a P60 from both companies for the last tax year? if not then the old company is breaking the law.
in all honesty the best people to speak to are the inland revenue

floss2

P60 is only required to be issued by the company employing you at the end of the tax year.....so you should only ever get one, unless you have 2 jobs.

Savvy_Sue

agree with floss, previous employer should not be issuing a P60. However, even if they 'lost' your P45 there's part of it should have gone to their local HMRC office. If it didn't, HMRC would normally pursue it.

Phone your local office and ask how you'd claim a rebate, it should not be difficult to work out if you're entitled or not but as already said it may have worked its way through your PAYE already if your tax code is now right.