Six million people have underpaid or overpaid tax

what_a_surprise

When I tried to go to this link, what a surprise, they have deleted the page.....

Kirri

I'm still owed money from 18 months ago and it's been ongoing since then, with multiple letters and calls chasing it. They rang me twice today, they still can't confirm they have my P60U which they have already confirmed in writing they have received! but now, as the files are in a separate office to the people sorting the claims (so they tell me) it will take another week to get the files to double check what they have already confirmed. They are so incompetent it's untrue.

I've just had my phone bill in, an average call to their 0845 number to attempt yet again to sort this cost about £3.50 the other Saturday and I have made umpteen calls to their office over the past 18 months :mad:

tro127

Hi,

I got a P800 form through today saying I'm owed a refund for the tax year 2004-2005. Will I get a separate letter if my tax has been wrong in more recent years or would it have been included in one lot?

Thanks in advance

what_a_surprise

Today I received a dreaded envelope saying I owed £1,462.80 for years 2009/10 and 2008/09.

I have 2 part-rime jobs and been in both since 2004, one in NHS and one in a school. After the intial shock, I looked through my slips. in 2004/05 my tax code was split between the two. My NHS job was then 'tupied' over to another part of the NHS but changed names. It appears that since this change in 2004 (after my P45 was issued) I was then allocated full tax code for each job! So my PCT must of made the error.

On average over the 6 years I have a combined salary of between £8,000 and £10,000 I now believe for the yeasr 2005/6, 2006/7, 2007/08 I could owe over £3,000 in total. I don't know whether to say to the tax office I queried tax code in 2004/05 and it was split correctly, but they may then go back and request the total of £3,000.

Eitherway I can't afford to pay back and distressed, can anyone help? please

johnsmi

Hi all,

I got a letter from taxman today saying that I owe over £2100 more or less equally split between 08/09 and 09/10. I am on an occupational pension from my local authority around £5500 a year also IB as I was laid off on medical grounds a good number of years ago. Last years total income between the 2 was just over £13k.

I feel that after talking to the taxman on phone I have to pay the above and probably will be lucky if they don't go back further years in due course.

I wonder do you think its a good course of action for me to pay the above but then to query any further years prior to 2008 as obviously they had all my income details?

all advice greatly appreciated.

John

SherlockFan85

Hi,

Thankyou chrismac1 for your response. I think that I made a mistake by calling the extra money a "redundancy payout". It was not actually a redundancy payout - absolutely no one got any redundancy money who were in my position, despite over 5 years service, as it was part time.

This was a bonus payout from our particular store, and only a handful of the 25+ people who worked there got it, and I was one of them. I think this was because
1) I worked my socks off there every weekend for 5 years, from A levels through uni and during the first year of my first FT job.
2) My fiance also worked there for 4 years in the same store (is how me met :heartsmil), and so the manager knew that the bonus would technically be for two members of staff. (he didn't get it in his payslip). An assumption that we would stay together which paid off - we moved into our first place three months ago, he is now a PCSO (or PC in training as he likes to call it!) and I work in a newly built school! :beer:
So I guess that is why it should have been a taxable amount after all.

Thanks!

gazza975526570

I just received on too - TBH im really perplexed.

Ive worked for the same company for 16 years. Its a request for an underpayment for 2008. I dont complete a tax return - my employers deduct the tax and im not sure how i was meant to be able to tell ive been underpaying. (Im sure some of you may have been able to but i do review my wage slips and havent noticed any difference). Ive not changed tax codes.

Is it worth contacting them?

glider3560

gazza975526570 wrote: »

I just received on too - TBH im really perplexed.

Ive worked for the same company for 16 years. Its a request for an underpayment for 2008. I dont complete a tax return - my employers deduct the tax and im not sure how i was meant to be able to tell ive been underpaying. (Im sure some of you may have been able to but i do review my wage slips and havent noticed any difference). Ive not changed tax codes.

Is it worth contacting them?

Post the figures here that HMRC claim and then also post the figures from your P60 from 2008.

gazza975526570

glider3560 wrote: »

Post the figures here that HMRC claim and then also post the figures from your P60 from 2008.

Thanks - im currently at home and my P60 is at work. Just given them a call and it apparently relates to a loan benefit from my employers where my tax code wasnt amended as it should have been.
I understand from speaking to them it was my responsibility to check it. I do find it problematic that it isnt an easy topic to understand and as such adhere to the rules. Guess i chalk this us as experience!

priceworld

My father who is 70 and has recently retired also works part time and has had a P800T through saying he owes £723.

Taxman proposes to take this from him during the year 2011/12 but that would leave him very short of income.

I would like to, on his behalf, ask for 5 years to repay is that a realistic proposition? What is the most time we could ask for?

Can i help him ask the taxman for a detailed beakdown of the overpayment, we are sure it is to do with having two pensions and an income but i feel i ought check the figures.