Income Tax Help Please!!

jsbaker88

Hi keen moneysavers....

I was on a work year out of uni from Aug 2008 to Aug 2009. Given that the tax year runs from April to April, should I be able to claim some tax back from April 2009 onwards (I haven't had another job since)?

From April-September 2009 I will have earned £10k, but am I right to believe £6k or so of that is not taxable as it's my personal allowance for the tax year running from April 09 - April 2010?

If so, how and when do I go about reclaiming??

Any help will be extremely appreciated - being a student any extra money I could get in would be a massive bonus!

Thanks,

James

chrisbur

Provided that you will have no taxable income between now and April 5 you can use the following form now.
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/pdfs/p50.pdf

Have you checked that you ended last year on the correct code applied on a cumulative basis, if not you may be due some back for that year, If you are not sure you can post your tax code gross and tax for checking.