P60 Clarification Please

TM1976

Although this is clearly a mess it seems to me this is not essentially a tax problem as the correct amount of tax has been paid.

It appears that your problem is proving your correct earnings to the student grant body.

Can I suggest that you forget trying to get proof from HMR&C that your P60 is incorrect and instead investigate whether you can provide alternative evidence or your salary such as:

1. Last payslip for the year or a record of all your payslips for the year.
2. A statment of earnings from your employer ( a formal letter from your employer saying what you earned).
3. A copy of your contract.

SJ1

I agree with TM. We had a problem with the P45 we received for my husband as it stated the incorrect amount of months of tax free allowance. I ended up getting a statement of earnings and that did the trick in the end although it stated 'as it says on your P45' which was a laugh since that was the reason we needed it - the bloomin p45 was wrong! We submitted that instead and it worked.

Good luck with it all. Keep on it!

ioscorpio

I completed my tax return last week and filed the correct figures and in the Any Other Info box, I put that my P60 was incorrect and put my correct salary and mileage totals.

That takes care of the overpaid tax, but what about the overpaid NI.

Pont

ioscorpio - I'd be interested to know if HMRC accepts your figures on your tax return, and if they acknowledge your P60 was incorrect. If so this could be something I follow up for my own case. The information on how to claim back overpayments of NICs is here:-
http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/MoneyTaxAndBenefits/Taxes/BeginnersGuideToTax/IncomeTax/Taxrefundsreclaimingtax/DG_078771

beaujolais-nouveau

I've read through this thread, and to me it looks as if your petrol reimbursements should have been declared as a "benefit in kind". When one files a tax return on-line, there is a quite a long section where one enters payments made that are not salary, and I am stupefied that your employer has decided to make life simpler for him/herself by not bothering with this section and lumping everything into salary.

Benefits in kind affect your tax code. That's where I would start with HMRC - they don't like people having the wrong tax code.

http://www.direct.gov.uk/en/MoneyTaxAndBenefits/Taxes/BeginnersGuideToTax/IncomeTax/Taxcodes/DG_078426

I am trying to work out whether or not your employer is operating a scam. Eg is the additional tax taken from you actually passed on to HMRC.

Pont

beaujolais - I don't think my petrol reimbursements come under the 'benefit in kind' heading as the reimbursements are under the allowable 40ppm. However, I've tried to tell my employer that by lumping salary and reimbursements together not only am I paying too much tax/NICs/SL, they are also paying too much in the way of employers NICs! Bearing in mind my employer is a local authority, this is public money they're wasting! They just don't get it!
The additional tax taken from me shows on my salary slip so I don't think there is a scam in operation, just incompetence.

ioscorpio

I have just checked my online banking and my tax refund has been paid on the figures I put on my SA form. Is that just computer generated without being checked by a real person?

TM1976

ioscorpio wrote: »

I have just checked my online banking and my tax refund has been paid on the figures I put on my SA form. Is that just computer generated without being checked by a real person?

It's self assessment - so it's based purely on the info you have entered. They can look into it in more detail and take money back if they choose to.

It's an expedient way of getting money back but it'll probably mean you'll have to continue to self assess in future years.