notification of new tax code

anamenottaken

My pay this week was less than expected.
Turns out the tax code applied has changed from 647L to 139L.
I've received no communication from HMRC about this, just noticed the code on my payslip.
Shouldn't HMRC send out change notices to tax payers?

CLAPTON

yes..............

Mikeyorks

I echo the 'yes'.

But - I do recollect from a previous thread, several months ago, one of the HMRC people indicating that the new PAYE system has a tick box for issuing the customer copy! If true - a bit of a recipe for (non) issues.

anamenottaken

Mikeyorks wrote: »

I echo the 'yes'.

But - I do recollect from a previous thread, several months ago, one of the HMRC people indicating that the new PAYE system has a tick box for issuing the customer copy! If true - a bit of a recipe for (non) issues.

I'll try to trace the thread (always difficult, I find).
Tick box where?

jem16

Mikeyorks wrote: »

But - I do recollect from a previous thread, several months ago, one of the HMRC people indicating that the new PAYE system has a tick box for issuing the customer copy!

You sure you're not getting mixed up with my thread where a copy of the coding notice had not been sent to my employer as someone forgot to tick the box? I got a copy but my employer didn't.

Mikeyorks

jem16 wrote: »

You sure you're not getting mixed up with my thread .

Today I am having a bad day! And I strongly suspect that is what is lodged in the alleged memory bank!

Apologies to the OP. But the gist remains ........ yes, you should have a copy of an in-year change on a P2 (Coding Notice)

Mikeyorks

anamenottaken wrote: »

Tick box where?

The tick box is internal to the new PAYE (NPS) system within HMRC. (More likely - one of the inputs to it)

But - apologies - as Jem has correctly pointed out I suspect I've half remembered (the wrong half ) that it was the other way around - and the employer was not notified.

CLAPTON

anamenottaken wrote: »

My pay this week was less than expected.
Turns out the tax code applied has changed from 647L to 139L.
I've received no communication from HMRC about this, just noticed the code on my payslip.
Shouldn't HMRC send out change notices to tax payers?

more importantly, is the new tax code correct?
what has changed to require the new code?

anamenottaken

CLAPTON wrote: »

more importantly, is the new tax code correct?
what has changed to require the new code?

Exactly - I want to know how it's been calculated.
It seems rather a drastic reduction and doesn't tally with any under-payment I can imagine.

jem16

anamenottaken wrote: »

Exactly - I want to know how it's been calculated.

Time to phone HMRC and find out.

anamenottaken

jem16 wrote: »

Time to phone HMRC and find out.

Before phoning HMRC I was just checking that they are supposed to write to the taxpayer - and I checked with my employer that it wasn't a mistake on their part.

It seems the Pensions people sent HMRC a note of what I was entitled to receive. However, I'm not claiming it yet - so the code willl be corrected.