Another tax rebate advice request.

russellgreeno

Last year both my girlfriend and I had two jobs each (both part time), on our main job we both had our normal tax code and on the second job the BR code. All fine so far. We've done this before and fine with that.

The first job supplied is with all the proper bits, wage slips and P60.

The second job never sent us a P45 when we left, we have no P60 from them either. We do have the final wage slips though.

We sent in the wage slips for job two and p60 for job one. After a month or so we had them returned and letters saying that the tax office would write off to the 2nd employer for the full figures.

After another month goes by we hear nothing, after writing once more to the tax office we get letters back saying that the 2nd employer has gone into liquidation and there are no records of the tax. So I phone them up and ask what to do, the chap on the phone says - send the wage slips in again and they will sort it.

So we do that again, after another month goes by the wage slips return and one week after that, I get my tax back in the form of a cheque (about £1000).

But my girlfriend gets nothing, wage slips but no cheque. So she phones them asking where the money is.

They tell her that as there is no p60 they will not process a refund and wage slips are not evidence on their own. So either get a p60 from the 2nd job or you wont get any tax back (very rude I thought).

It seems difficult to get a P60 from a company that has been liquidised but more to the point, how was I able to get a refund with just wage slips as evidence but my girlfriend not able to?

Does anyone have any advice please? Thanks

Just to confirm, both had exactly the same jobs - same tax codes, same wages. Everything. Only difference was they sent me a refund and not my girlfriend.

fengirl_2

Your g/f needs to phone the tax office and point out that the company is in liquidation and that they accepted payslips in your case. This is the problem with HMRC in the way it is run now. Once upon a time, you had one tax officer dealing with a block of employers, so they knew all their employers intimately. Now, everyone just gets handed a pile of random post to deal with, so you have to reinvent the wheel every time.

russellgreeno

I wasn't going to say in case I sounded bias against the tax office.

She did phone and say that I got my tax back fine with the same evidence as her.

They basically said that they have never accepted wage slips as evidence as they are not secure and open to fraud and that I cannot have had my tax calculated by wage slips. Which is just untrue. But you can't argue with these people on the phone.

fengirl_2

In that case, your g/f needs to write to her tax office sending photocopies of your repayment calculation and ask them to refer to your papers where they will see that paylsips were accepted. All t/p's have to be treated equitably.

BoGoF

The fact is you should NOT have received the repayment on the basis of the payslips and 2 wrongs don't make a right. Your best bet is to try and find out who the administrator of the company is - they will be the ones responsible for sorting out the tax position with HMRC