company wants tax returns

rupee99

The employer is making an unwarranted intrusion into your privacy. You are not obliged to provide the information they are asking for and unless everyone else, from the cleaner to Managing Director, has to supply the same details they cannot take any action against you if you refuse (which is what I would do in your circumstances).

EDIT

Either that or go to the HMRC web site, print off forms for the relevant years, and fill them in as best you are able from memory. No-one will know they are not the actual ones that you submitted to HMRC as they are not receipted by them any longer.

negg

The employer is making an unwarranted intrusion into your privacy.

They may also be breaking the Data Protection Act?

rupee99

negg wrote: »

They may also be breaking the Data Protection Act?

No, there is no Data Protection Privacy if the "data subject" discloses the information as would be the case in this instance.

klunk

Hi,

They are doing a CRB too, I'm just going to ask the tax for copies or just make it up roughly from memory no way they can check them is there?

Debt_Free_Chick

klunk wrote: »

Hi,

They are doing a CRB too, I'm just going to ask the tax for copies or just make it up roughly from memory no way they can check them is there?

Are you registered online with HMRC? If so, will they accept the statements printed from your online account?

It seems odd to ask for tax returns but I would guess they've asked for these as there is other financial information not available. Try to speak to the right person who can explain what it is they want to see i.e. proof of ....?

BTW - Google "employment screening" to see what kind of screening services are offered to employers as this will show you the kind of evidence they're trying to gather.

ninky_2

you can get them from your tax office that you send your returns to i think. i needed three years for a mortgage application. they send you a sheet for each year that basically says what your taxable income was and the tax you paid from what i remember.

that said, i can't imagine why they want this. unless it is to gauge or confirm how much experience you might have?

klunk

Hi,

when i did ring them they said it was to show how i supported myself for the last 3 years

ninky_2

klunk wrote: »

Hi,

when i did ring them they said it was to show how i supported myself for the last 3 years

how odd. maybe they've had problems with people not declaring income and claiming benefits? i'm self employed but tend to only have a few companies i work for in each tax year, all of whom require my unique tax reference and declare their payments to revenue.

Zazen999

klunk wrote: »

Hi,

when i did ring them they said it was to show how i supported myself for the last 3 years

Ok - phone them back and ask why they need to know this...if you had lived on an inheritance then what would the difference have been?

maninthestreet

Why does your employer need to know how you supported yourself before you started working for them?