Reclaiming Overpaid Tax

leeroy221

Hello all,

My wife earned £5500 during the last tax year but still paid tax. I am looking into putting in a claim for her on the tax paid as she earned under the personal tax free allowance.

What i am after is a template letter to write to the tax office, does anyone know where a template is?

Thanks for your help

wakeupalarm

Here you go, from HMRC

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

zs21

i phoned a number to get mine sorted out, was done over the phone and they posted me a cheque after about 4 weeks. the number i phoned is 08453021442 if you contact them they will be able to tell you if your entitled to tax back, check your p60 too for amounts paid. hope that helps.

ashnojutsu

zs21 wrote: »

i phoned a number to get mine sorted out, was done over the phone and they posted me a cheque after about 4 weeks. the number i phoned is 08453021442 if you contact them they will be able to tell you if your entitled to tax back, check your p60 too for amounts paid. hope that helps.

Do you have to pay a fee for this service? I phoned up my tax office, and they advised me to send in my P45! They then said it would be sorted out by them.

My situation is as follows: In 2008-2009 i was claiming jobseekers allowance, and then started work on the 1st of december. I paid around £600 tax until april 1st 2009. I hope I'm may be entitled to claim all or the majority of that tax back!

Any know how much (if any) i will receive back as a refund?

zppp

ashnojutsu wrote: »

Do you have to pay a fee for this service? I phoned up my tax office, and they advised me to send in my P45! They then said it would be sorted out by them.

My situation is as follows: In 2008-2009 i was claiming jobseekers allowance, and then started work on the 1st of december. I paid around £600 tax until april 1st 2009. I hope I'm may be entitled to claim all or the majority of that tax back!

Any know how much (if any) i will receive back as a refund?

• No there isn't a fee.
• Just send them what they need and they will deal with it, they have a calculations unit and it depends on a number of factors, as to how much you recieve back.
• They will then send you a crossed cheque for the amount you are owed.
• Done.

john87_2

I had this problem of over paid tax. So I rang them up and gave a few details (NI no, employer etc) and they sent a cheque out within a few weeks.