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Tax

njo86 · 2010-09-16 08:28:42

Hi, I started a new job a couple of weeks ago and understood that I may have to go on emergency tax, however the tax I've paid is way over 20% I wondered if someone could help me understand what's happened. Here is info from paylsip: Total Gross Pay: £1151.17 Gross for Tax: £1151.17 Earning for NI: £1148.00 Payment period…

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njo86 Posts: 39 Forumite

17 September 2010 at 3:12PM

chrisbur wrote: »

My guess is that when you were set up on their payroll system they had not recieved a P45 or P46 so put you down as BR tax code, they then recieved the P45 put the figures onto your record but forgot the tax code itself.

Yes, this is my guess too.

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