Sorry to ask such a potentionally ridicolously stupid question but...

Gandalfthegrey

I have been hearing about these tax rebates some people have received recently and was thinking if the tax office have the correct address for me just incase (wishful thinking) they may have issued a rebate for me but to the wrong address!
Anyway here is my stupid question; we currently receive tax credits and they obviously send us letters in the post to my current address, so as they are also HMRC does that mean they also have my adddress on record for my employment details seeing as they are the same people! lol silly question, but I work in local government I know that just because 1 department have an address on file for someone doesnt mean another will!
Thanks

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Gandalfthegrey wrote: »

I have been hearing about these tax rebates some people have received recently and was thinking if the tax office have the correct address for me just incase (wishful thinking) they may have issued a rebate for me but to the wrong address!
Anyway here is my stupid question; we currently receive tax credits and they obviously send us letters in the post to my current address, so as they are also HMRC does that mean they also have my adddress on record for my employment details seeing as they are the same people! lol silly question, but I work in local government I know that just because 1 department have an address on file for someone doesnt mean another will!
Thanks

Each Year your Employer will submit an annual return to HMRC deatailing your Name, NINO, D.O.B, Address and details of Earning and Tax paid etc etc. So unless you have moved since April, yes they will know.

Gandalfthegrey

Thanks! damn it - no rebate for me then, never mind!

no-oneknowsme

The thing is that just because one dept of HMRC have the correct details for you it doesnt always mean that all depts will....

For example. My OH registered as self employed around 10/11 months ago.

He registered with HMRC by filling out the paper version of the registration form and sent it away to HMRC .

In time we received his welcome pack from hmrc and shortly after , we started to receive his class 2 NIC bills . All was well until around November 2010 when one day we got a letter from HMRC which was a notice to file his s/assessment.

I noticed that the date on the letter was June :eek: , some 4/5 months after it had been posted !! The front of the envelope had a white sticky label attached and my OH's name and address were hand written on the label . The address details in the letter were an address which my OH had never lived at...infact it was his parents address from around 10 years ago ! To this day i have no idea how the letter ended up there or the letter found its way to us after so long but im glad it did.

I called HMRC up to find out what address details
they held for OH as i was worried that
as we had recently registered him for online filing , his activation code etc would go to the wrong address....

Upon speaking to the lady at HMRC she was as confused as we were but was able to tell us that HMRC had 3 addresses on file for OH ,2 of which he had never ever lived at !!!!

Op , i would advise that you call HMRC yourself to check that your address details are all up to date - we had been receiving tax credits (also paid by HMRC , for many years before this blunder) to our home address so we assumed they must know our address.

I remember reading some-where that it is the responsibility of the individual to inform HMRC of any changes in name/address details.