UTR number wrong

Bobgaz

I've been self employed for a few months now I've given my employer my UTR number and they have been deducting 20%. I've now noticed that I gave them the wrong UTR number. So what Im asking is when I do my self assessment will it be affected? Will they know I gave the wrong number at all? I need help worried

heretolearn_2

Never mind that, if you are self employed, why are they deducting tax? What industry do you work in?

gb12345

If you are self-employed then you do not have an employer - you have clients and customers who you perform services for (or supply goods to).

As heretolearn says, no one should be deducting tax (or National Insurance) from you. You invoice your clients, they pay and at the end of the tax year you do a tax return and pay your tax.

I would recommend that you urgently get a meeting with an accountant to find out if you really are self-employed as it sounds to me like you are actually working for an employer.

If you are truely self-employed then you need to lose the employer/employee terminology - it makes it very easy of HMRC to decide you are up to something dodgy and investigate you.

agrinnall

I don't see how the UTR is being used here anyway, surely if tax is being deducted (and it seems dubious from what we know so far) then it's the NI number that is required in order to apply the tax to the OP's account. Is there a way in which the UTR could be used to do this? While there should be a direct relationship between UTR and NINO I would have thought HMRC would be very suspicious of anyone other then the OP trying to use the UTR.

PlutoinCapricorn

Contractors in the construction industry sometimes do have tax deducted under the CIS system, but I too think that the NI number is used.

heretolearn_2

That's why I asked what industry the OP works in, the CIS scheme is the only one I can think of where the 'subcontractors' get their tax deducted at source. It's possible due to the OPs username that this is the case, but just wanted to check.

If you gave them the wrong UTR number then there is a bit of sorting out to do with the HMRC. Any payments made won't have been matched up to your tax account.