Tax query?

stormbreaker

Apologies I think I put this on the wrong thread to begin with!

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1895835&highlight=

Any

Just to recap so people don't have to go from a screen to a screen

My son is 17. He worked part time temp.seasonal over Christmas and paid tax.

He started working for the same company p/t February, later going full time and paying tax.

He will soon be going back to full time education.

He has not yet grasped the idea of holding on to payslips etc. and does not know if he got a P45 in April.

Q. Does he automatically get the tax he has paid back or will he need to claim for it?

Q. If he has been given the tax back in his pay(for the last tax year 2008-2009) , will the tax he paid last year now be '0' ?

My reason for asking is two fold.

He paid tax on some savings and has the application to claim it back. Naturally it asks how much tax he paid 2008-2009. If he has been given it back it will be nothing which would be great as we would not have to try and retrieve any P45s.

If his working tax is not paid back to him automatically we will need to look into claiming it back for last year and keep it in mind for next April.

Any help would be appreciated!

Any

Sorry mate, but keeping payslips is not a "grasp" but necessity!!

He will get it automatically, but this can take very very long time.

He will be best of to call his employer and ask him for copies of his payslips to find out how much tax did he pay.

Any

Any wrote: »

Q. If he has been given the tax back in his pay(for the last tax year 2008-2009) , will the tax he paid last year now be '0' ?

Yes, if it was refunded to him in his pay (more likely that he didn't pay any tax) it would be 0