Got my payslip today, £990 gross pay, £500 PAYE TAX!!!!!!! HELP!!!

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This is not uncommon and why many payroll staff such as myself have massive concerns about RTI and Universal Credit! HMRC cannot get it right now so how many vunerable people are going to suffer when HMRC stuff up your UC?
Back to the topic.... The rules are silly, although under a K code tax is capped at 50% of pay on a normal code by rights your employer should operate it and collect any underpayment that code calculates... Even all your wages! NI is calculated separately and don't come into it. Payroll departments set their own triggers of things to check so unfortunately if yours is 50% and you were just under that limit this is why they didn't query the code or apply it on a wk1 basis.
It's very sad that your employer is not willing to help you out by way of an advance.

Sambucus_Nigra

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I've been working there for a year. This happened to me begining of this year aswell and they made me wait a month for a refund. It's a joke.

I think you need to get to the crux of why this is happening in the first place; so that you don't end up like this every few months.

And I'd ask your boss to reconsider the advance; just pay you what you would have been paid had they got the tax code right, or even used an ounce of their brain power and questioned it before processing it - particularly if it's happened before.

In fact, I'd be asking every day not 'will you give me an advance' but 'how do I arrange an advance please, as the tax office have mucked up my tax code and nobody thought to question it?'.

ani_26

Sadly, as it's been said, there is little you can do about it. Hmrc are the law.

A similar thing happened to me both in january and february this year, leaving with me i think in the region of £100 in pay for each month. They took almost every penny i had earnt. They changed my tax codes for no reason and it takes them an eternity to change them back again. The company will only use the tax code they have on their system. Unfortunately, as i am not " on staff " i couldn't get an advance on my wages, leaving me in dire straits.

As a matter of interest, this is tax which shouldn't have been taken and Hmrc still owe me the amounts which were taken. Unfortunately, even though this amount is still unpaid via a rebate, and Hmrc staff agree this amount is still due to be repaid to me, they can only use ridiculous information on their system, ( going back some 25 years,) which they are unable to change, the likelihood of me ever receiving my tax rebate, is remote, at best.