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Truly.Yours

Hi there, I am currently a student and I am very confused.

I have done some part time work and have been paid for a bit of work. I did 4 hours work, at £6 an hour this is £24. but i was given only £19.20. It tells me i have been charged £4.80 (20%) income tax. I have a tax code BRW1 on the pay advice sheet from my emplyer.
Should I have been charged this? Please help.

Thank you

chrisbur

Do you have any other taxable income?
When you started did you hand in a P45 or complete a P46?
If you did complete a P46 did you tick A,B, or C on the form?

LittleVoice

Truly.Yours wrote: »

Hi there, I am currently a student and I am very confused.

I have done some part time work and have been paid for a bit of work. I did 4 hours work, at £6 an hour this is £24. but i was given only £19.20. It tells me i have been charged £4.80 (20%) income tax. I have a tax code BRW1 on the pay advice sheet from my emplyer.
Should I have been charged this? Please help.

Thank you

When did you start working for this employer. It may be they are waiting for confirmation from the tax office so they can apply your correct code.

The BRW1 code indicates they are applying the Basic Rate (20%) to all of your earnings on a Week 1 basis (ie as though this was forever Week 1 and not cumulative).

Truly.Yours

Thank you for replying chrisbur and LittleVoice. I have only had one real job before, that was about 3 months ago where I worked at my college for 2 days. I got paid for that and thats it.

I only started working a few weeks ago. I get to choose the hours and have only worked 4 hours so far. I did not fill any forms in. I only provided my National Insurance number and bank deatials which were requested by the employer.

Could you please advise what forms I require?

Thank you

ceeforcat

If you only worked two days previously in this tax year ask your employer for a form P46 - complete the front of the form and, in the bottom left hand corner section, tick box A. Return the form to your employer and tell him to operate code 603L Cumulative on your wages.

Truly.Yours

ceeforcat wrote: »

If you only worked two days previously in this tax year ask your employer for a form P46 - complete the front of the form and, in the bottom left hand corner section, tick box A. Return the form to your employer and tell him to operate code 603L Cumulative on your wages.

Thank you ceeforcat for replying. i can find a p46 form online on the gov website. can i download and print it and hand it in from there? Thanks

Also how would i get the income tax i have already been charged back?thanks

chrisbur

You need a P46, normally this would be given to you by your employer, you would fill in your part, and your employer would fill in their part and send it to the tax office.
You can get one here
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/forms/p46.pdf
On what you have said you should enter X in box B and sign the form. This will allow your employer to operate the emergency code on a week1/month1 basis, which would mean you can earn about £116 a week before paying tax. Eventually the tax office will issue a cumulative code and any overpaid tax will be repaid to you.
Hopefully this will sort it out but there is always the possibility that your employer may not know what to do, if this is the case you will have to speak to your tax office yourself.

Truly.Yours

chrisbur wrote: »

You need a P46, normally this would be given to you by your employer, you would fill in your part, and your employer would fill in their part and send it to the tax office.
You can get one here
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/forms/p46.pdf
On what you have said you should enter X in box B and sign the form. This will allow your employer to operate the emergency code on a week1/month1 basis, which would mean you can earn about £116 a week before paying tax. Eventually the tax office will issue a cumulative code and any overpaid tax will be repaid to you.
Hopefully this will sort it out but there is always the possibility that your employer may not know what to do, if this is the case you will have to speak to your tax office yourself.

will the overpaid tax be given back to myself automatically?

also can working for 2 days be considered a job? the college did take my NI number and bank account deatials. assuming aug 08 is when i worked, would this be included in the tax year thing and would i still choose option b?

Thanks for helping me, i really appreciate it. this is my first experience of taxes just managed to get them to pay ineterest without tax as I dont earn the threshould amount the other day!

ceeforcat

The tax will not be repaid until such times that your code is changed to 603L cumulative by the HMRC. Personally I would tick Box A which would achieve this - just my view (I know not strictly correct but I would not be getting too excited by your previous two days working)