P87 for 2008/2009?

Porceliamone

The new 2009 form is easy enough to find. Just Google 'P87' and the .gov link will take you to the url for the 2008/2009 PDF which you can download. I'd post it directly here but as I'm a new user the site won't allow me to post links!

On the new form you will note that if your expenses are over £2,500 you have to complete an entire self assessment tax return instead now!? Am I reading that correctly?

Is this just another way of the Government making it more of a pain in the rear to claim what we're entitled to?

I'm paid somewhat short of the 40 pence and 25 pence threshold for my fuel by my company but it easliy goes over the £2,500 mark.

How frustrating!

keithing-ger

Porceliamone wrote: »

The new 2009 form is easy enough to find. Just Google 'P87' and the .gov link will take you to the url for the 2008/2009 PDF which you can download. I'd post it directly here but as I'm a new user the site won't allow me to post links!

On the new form you will note that if your expenses are over £2,500 you have to complete an entire self assessment tax return instead now!? Am I reading that correctly?

Is this just another way of the Government making it more of a pain in the rear to claim what we're entitled to?

I'm paid somewhat short of the 40 pence and 25 pence threshold for my fuel by my company but it easliy goes over the £2,500 mark.

How frustrating!

Can someone that is not a newbie like us, post this link! Ta.

wr1ght

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/forms/p87.pdf

gmbunn

Hi folks,

I submitted my P87 around 2 months ago but havent heard a thing back yet, is this normal?

thanks

gmbunn

trevormax

its a very busy time of the year as a lot of people have done the same as you. Give HMRC a call though and ask why its taking such a long time and ask them to check your record to see if anything has been done yet.

gmbunn

i wonder if i sent it to the wrong tax office. I sent it to the office that my old company dealt with (this is the company the p87 claim relates to). Should i have sent it to my current employers tax office instead?

System

gmbunn wrote: »

i wonder if i sent it to the wrong tax office. I sent it to the office that my old company dealt with (this is the company the p87 claim relates to). Should i have sent it to my current employers tax office instead?

It won't make much difference at the moment as HMRC are upgrading the PAYE computer system. The new system is supposed to do away with the need to send forms etc to only 1 particular office.

Mary_Hartnell

Does that mean all the paper documentation will have been scanned into a computer, and can be served up as images on a screen nation wide?
I don't care; I've got nothing to hide but standby for "breaches of privacy" and questions in The House.

fengirl_2

No, it just means that instead of just being able to look at your records remotely from another tax office, actual work can be done on your tax affairs at any office. At the moment, any officer can look at any tax record in the country, but cannot make any amendments to it - under the new system they could make amendments to codes, repayments, etc. Means that work can be shuffled around to where there is spare capacity, eg India.

suso

Mary_Hartnell wrote: »

Does that mean all the paper documentation will have been scanned into a computer, and can be served up as images on a screen nation wide?
I don't care; I've got nothing to hide but standby for "breaches of privacy" and questions in The House.

As far as I'm aware, the original paperwork won't be scanned.

What it will mean is any tax office can deal with any individuals query, so rather than being told "we don't hold your record call another office" whoever you call can sort out your problem.

Also rather than a record for each employment, (so people with more than one job / pension have multiple records, most likely each record being dealt with by a different office) you now have one individual record with all the different incomes on it. So anyone can solve the query.

If it works it should improve the system, if it doesn't work, the country will be bankrupt very soon.

As for breaches of privacy, I think its a sackable offence to browse records on a whim.