Tax Rebate - Which Years Can I get Tax Back?

BigFan

I've been working in the UK for the last 9 years. I'm leaving the UK soon and considering filling form P85.

At the end of the form P85 there is only one tax year that you can claim the repayment for.

My question is: Can I claim tax repayment for the previous financial years and fill a P85 form for each of these years?

PS: I'm not a UK citizen but rather a Permanent Resident.

Thanks

fengirl_2

You can claim back 6 yrs, but if you have been on PAYE, you are unlikely to be due a refund for years prior to the current year. The reason for the refund in the current year is that you will not have used all your tax-free personal allowances in the year of departure. HMRC will automatically have checked your liability for past years.

John_Pierpoint

fengirl wrote: »

You can claim back 6 yrs, but if you have been on PAYE, you are unlikely to be due a refund for years prior to the current year. The reason for the refund in the current year is that you will not have used all your tax-free personal allowances in the year of departure. HMRC will automatically have checked your liability for past years.

You know it has always been a bit more complicated than that:

5 Years & ten months?

Deadlines are being changed?

It is fairly obvious that the Original Poster has "got the wrong end of the stick" (to use a printing term).

We need to know the figures and dates from the original poster.
Was the OP ever a 10% tax payer or a 30/40/50% tax payer?

Did the OP do self assessment tax returns?

Does the OP have foreign income perhaps in the foreign domicile?

We cannot assume that the OP is a E. European crop picker or an over staying Aussie back packer.
We cannot assume that those two types of tax payers are just on simple PAYE.

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/incometax/overpaid-thro-job.htm#4

fengirl_2

Thanks for those pointers, JP, but we can only use the info we have. Nowhere in my post does it indicate that I think the OP is an overstaying crop picker.
I will leave the tax questions to you in future.

John_Pierpoint

No please don't do that - your experience is much greater than mine.

Perhaps the OP would like to give a bit more information about the actual situation so we all can give a reasoned response?

BigFan

I am an OZ national married to a british citizen and have the "indefinite right to remain" visa. Before my IDR, I was working in the UK on work permit visa. We have decided to move to OZ for good hence my question in the original post.

Hope this will clear my residence status in the UK. Definitely not an overstayer.

BTW, my job is a Registred Nurse

Generali

BigFan wrote: »

I've been working in the UK for the last 9 years. I'm leaving the UK soon and considering filling form P85.

At the end of the form P85 there is only one tax year that you can claim the repayment for.

My question is: Can I claim tax repayment for the previous financial years and fill a P85 form for each of these years?

PS: I'm not a UK citizen but rather a Permanent Resident.

Thanks

Hi BigFan,

I write as a Pom now living in Sydney.

You can claim any tax refunds for the past 6 years and, as has been pointed out, you are unlikely to have much if any claim if you've been on PAYE.

The UK and Aussie tax systems are very different. In Australia there seem to be hundreds of things you can claim back against your tax whereas in the UK there are very few if you are on PAYE (=PAYG).

HTH

Generali