claiming uniform tax 'cost' me 10K!!

F_Bear

for everyone raving about the uniform tax rebate........

i was at uni from 99-02 and racked up £10k worth of student debt with RBS on booze, clapped out cars and holidays. i was working throughout and in part time empoyment untill april 05 when i got a government job.

after all this time id completely forgot about the student loan and it seemed so had RBS.....

......fastforward to late 2009 and a mate at work said i could claim a tax rebate on my uniform of £80 a year. so i wrote to tax office, sat back and waited for my £320 cheque...........

.........a few months later i got my reply:

'we've looked at ur tax and you underpaid during your student/part time job and with the uniform rebate have changed your taxcode by £1. oh, and by the way, you owe us £11k' (with interest) :mad::mad::mad:

so now im paying £100 a month repayment (now on £30k) and getting a extra quid in my pay!

now i wish id remembered about the loan earlier...........or RBS forgot for longer

McKneff

Hells bells, I have even more bad news for you, where did you get the figure of £80 a year from/...... some mate........

The tax you would receive back from any full year for washing your own logo ed uniform is £12 for this year, even less for last year, less the year before.

The tax allowance is £60 a year so you save the tax on this £60 which is £12. (20%)
which is why thy have given you £1 a month for a year.

They would have caught up with you sometime, you have just got to realsise that.

jennifernil

I fail to see the link between a student (presumably) overdraft with RBS, or even a loan, and an underpayment of tax on a part time job.

Can they go back to 2005 and beyond?

And how can you forget you borrowed money from the bank?