Income tax

mikasmummy

Hi all don't know if this is in the right place but I have started work in may 2012 before this I was claiming jsa my question is should I be paying tax my first wage I paid £158 then after I pay anything from £50 to £68 I didn't revive a p45 from jsa either should I Ring tax office or dose this seam right thanks in advance x

McKneff

In the absence of a p45 did you fill in a P46 when you started work.

What is the tax code on your last payslip

mikasmummy

Yeah filled in a p46 my tax code is 810L x

McKneff

Well, you are on the correct tax code. Any tax issue would have been sorted out on your first or second payslip with the company. ( or subsequent ones if you are weekly paid of course)

Have a look at them.

Just a tip, keep all payslips in a file, you never know when you will neeed them.

Good luck

Just checking - on any of your payslips is there a minus sign agains the tax paid.
You may have got a refund (the £158 sounds a lot)

ceeforcat

Good luck

Yes - but it appears that the op is on a month 1 code and the possibility remains that he/she may not have utilised all of April's personal allowance. Obviously the JSA will offset this a little but. as you say, worth keeping all payslips and Jsa details until the end of the tax year before reviewing.

McKneff wrote: »

Well, you are on the correct tax code. Any tax issue would have been sorted out on your first or second payslip with the company. ( or subsequent ones if you are weekly paid of course)

Have a look at them.

Just a tip, keep all payslips in a file, you never know when you will neeed them.


Just checking - on any of your payslips is there a minus sign agains the tax paid.
You may have got a refund (the £158 sounds a lot)

McKneff

I only ask about the minus sign because a few months ago someone had missed it and thought they had paid the amount of tax but it ended up it was a refund, they are easily missed.

ceeforcat

Completely agree - I had just noticed that the op stated that there was an 'x' after his code number which suggested, to me, that he was on 810L on a week1/month1 basis

McKneff wrote: »

I only ask about the minus sign because a few months ago someone had missed it and thought they had paid the amount of tax but it ended up it was a refund, they are easily missed.

suso

The original poster has unfortunately confused the issue.

In their original post they signed off with a "x"

In their second post they signed off with an "x" however it could mean that the x is a non cumulative code.

If its because it a non cumulative code, then they might have overpaid tax,

however if its a sign off then they might be under paying tax, because they started in May, and have not had a P45 from the DWP so any JSA received in this year will not be taken into account if the current employer is using their full allowance for the year.