Tax rebate SUCCESSES

northend77_2

Hi everyone, I am due a tax rebate for this year because I've not been given a personal allowance (and should have been) however I've noticed that the bottom of the paperwork for The Entitlements Agency says they will retain 17% excluding VAT for their services. Surely this is wrong as it's money I should have been given, in full, each month. Any ideas? Thanks

chrisbur

northend77 wrote: »

Hi everyone, I am due a tax rebate for this year because I've not been given a personal allowance (and should have been) however I've noticed that the bottom of the paperwork for The Entitlements Agency says they will retain 17% excluding VAT for their services. Surely this is wrong as it's money I should have been given, in full, each month. Any ideas? Thanks

The Entitlements Agency is a business that makes its money by making tax rebate claims on behalf of people like yourself. I presume that at some time you have signed up with them to act on your behalf with the HMRC. You do not have to use a business like this you can make a claim yourself direct to HMRC and then recieve 100% of any rebate due to you. But by signing up to The Entitlements Agency you have agreed to pay them a cut from your rebate in exchange for them doing the work ( not that there is a lot of work involved) for you.

If you do not want this to happen again you need to advise the tax office that you no longer authorise them to act for you as these sort of places usually have a condition in their contracts that they will continue to represent you untill further notice.

DarylBarker

Hi, i'm a bit confused to how i should go about claiming my tax rebate.

So i started working the 1st July 2012 and was put on the tax code: 810L-1. By April 2013 i have had a gross salary of £9,900.00 and paid £763.20 in tax. I have worked out that i am due a tax rebate of £404.

I get paid on a monthly basis through my company where the tax is taken automatically.

Do i need to ring up and claim the rebate? Or will it be paid to me automatically? e.g. through my wages or by cheque?

Many Thanks.

John_Pierpoint

The last day of tax year 12/13 was 05apr2013. Have you been paid since then ?
Have you been sent your P60 yet ?

If you want to do the job properly you need to check both lots of tax, that is Income tax and National Insurance against your payslips and your P60. The National Insurance gets complicated if you have variable pay due to hours, commission, bonus etc. Once you have satisfied your self that your P60 agrees with your pay slips and what was put into your bank account (?), then if you post the totals on here someone will check them for you.
Do you have other complexities such as student loans, working tax credits, and benefits in kind ?

hammers81uk

I receive a london underground interest free season ticket loan direct from my employers which comes out of my wages each month, would this effect my tax code and tax at all?

John_Pierpoint

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/eimanual/eim26142.htm

nickysel

Came on the site to check out uniform allowances for my daughter (see my post about that on the relevant forum) & came across your Tax Code Calculator. She's only been working for 3 months and is doing a seasonal job on minimum wage. I thought her tax was too high, but it was only your tax code guide that encouraged me to get her to query it with HMRC. Her code was 0T...i.e. she had zero personal allowance. Turns out HMRC had her on record as still receiving JSA (although they knew she was working - go figure!) The process was uber-easy - a pain to sit on hold for 32 minutes before getting to speak to a human being - but well worth it for £200! Once she got through, the HMRC guy was lovely & really helpful. After a few minutes, he'd established her code was wrong, is sending her and her employer the correct tax code and told her she'll get all the tax she's paid over the last month - £199.40 to be precise - in her next salary payment. He reassured her that he'll be sending her her new tax code just for her records - she doesn't need to do anything. Plus she won't be paying any tax going forward (because, sadly, she won't hit the £9K+ threshold that would make her eligible for tax.) THANK YOU!!! One happy mum & one extremely happy daughter :j :j :j :j

*TIP - make sure you've got your NI number & a payslip (ideally the most recent) to hand before you phone...you don't want to spend all that time waiting to get through for nothing

MSE - we love you :T :T :T :T

craigmc

I have a health cash plan through my employer (which I pay for off my salary), should this affect my tax code? I'm on 897 not 944L

peterandpaulo

Hi everyone, I got onto the local HMRC office and spoke to an operator regarding my income tax. I told him I thought that my current year tax was too high. He told me that my calculation was correct and for this financial year I would have paid £550 too much, so they are sending out a new tax code and I should receive a rebate next month. Very happy

Kirbi44

I used the tax calculator to check the last 4-5 years and it said id been overpaying in total £3000...I rang HMRC who told me my tax codes were fine etc???
I've worked for the same employer for approx 10yrs in which I've done different roles/pay rates.