P45 doesn't match final payslip

GlasweJen

I started a new job 2 weeks ago after being off sick from work for 12 weeks. I received my final payslip and P45 in the post last week but the numbers don't match up for some reason.

On my payslip my salary to date is some £4k higher than the figure on my P45. The payslip figure is my salary plus SSP so even though I wasn't paid my salary while off its on my payslip and I've been taxed as if I was paid it.

Also the amount of tax I paid is lower on my P45 than when I add up all the tax deducted on my payslips.

How do I go about getting this fixed? Payroll are adamant that both documents are right when they don't match each other or hold to scrutiny when you look at my old payslips and bank statements.

AP007

Is there a Total to date and a Total in this employment?

When did you join this company? (the one you have just left)

GlasweJen

I'd been working for the company for 2 years. There's only a year to date and taxable to date line.

AP007

GlasweJen wrote: »

I'd been working for the company for 2 years. There's only a year to date and taxable to date line.

I can only suggest you ask your payroll dept for a breakdown week or month by month depending on pay frequency and see if they match up with what you have been paid. Forget the payslip as you are saying they are not the same as the P45.

If however all your payslips have been checked by you and they are the same as your bank deposits by the company I would go back to them with a break down you have done and tell them they are wrong.

chrisbur

Can you give all the figures from your last payslip and your P45?

GlasweJen

Payslip
Salary: £742.80 YTD £12,430.67
Hol pay: £272.36 YTD £272.36
Bonus: £2 YTD £2
SSP: £326.23 YTD £1,116.05

B/FWD: £0
Tax: -£15.00
NI: £0
Deduction: £742.80

Gross TD: £15,007.44
Taxable TD: £11,645.50
Tax TD: £707.20
Pension TD: £0
Earn NI TD: £11,196.00
NI TD: £588.96
Earn NI TP: £0
Taxable TP: £1,343.39
Gross TP: £1,344.39

P45

Total pay to date: £11,645.50
Total tax to date: £707.20


So now that I'm looking at it again my payslip has 3 year to date figures, one of them matches the P45 but I have worked out that I earned £13,329 (including SSP) and paid £780 in tax from old pay slips which match the bank account.

Also it says on this pay slip that I've been paid by cheque but I've always been paid by BACS and all of my previous payslips have said this. I did receive a BACS payment on pay day for £615.59 which is holiday pay plus SSP plus the bonus plus the negative tax amount?

chrisbur

Although your salary appears on your payslip it is later being deducted so you have not been paid it nor has it been taxed. Your payslip is for bonus SSP holiday pay and a tax rebate and this agrees with the £615.59 you have been paid.

The P45 figures have been taken from the payslip figures that show taxable gross and tax paid which are the figures that should be used on a P45. You obviously have been recieving some part of your pay tax free hopefully you know what this is for if not your pay office will be able to tell you. A P45 will only show your taxable pay, if you have any tax free pay or pay into a pension under the net pay arrangement this part of your gross does not show on the P45.

No idea what this part means, do you know what TP stands for?
Earn NI TP: £0
Taxable TP: £1,343.39
Gross TP: £1,344.39

The tax to date figure agrees with the taxable gross figure assuming that this payslip was for month 12 and done on 810L tax code.

This leaves the question of tax which you say adds up to £780. Are you sure that you have added them up correctly, is it possible that you may have counted a tax rebate as a tax deducted? If you are sure we need I think to look at the month it happened on can you list each month for tax paid that month along with the two entries for Taxable TD and Tax TD as shown in the payslip above as Taxable TD: £11,645.50
Tax TD: £707.20 this will show which mohth the differance happened in and we can then look closer at that payslip.

AP007

I think they have done you as a leaver before they paid the last salary payment.

Deduct the 2 and you are only £42 ish out

EDIT

Oh yes I didn't see the deduction

Why was there a deduction?

What was actually paid to you on this payslip?

GlasweJen

Hi, I don't have my payslips all to hand now (staying at my mums tonight so I can post them tomorrow night if that's ok?).

I do wonder what you mean by me getting some of my pay tax free though, I didn't think I get anything tax free but if you mean the £15k figure then I definitely haven't been paid this much by them so I'm not sure why it's there on my payslip?

ETA my tax code is 810L.

GlasweJen

chrisbur wrote: »

No idea what this part means, do you know what TP stands for?
Earn NI TP: £0
Taxable TP: £1,343.39
Gross TP: £1,344.39

I have no idea what this part refers to sorry. I think I will try to ask payroll tomorrow but the clerk is an aggressive b*tch who hates being asked to explain anything. Apparently it's beneath her to be questioned on her many strange actions like deducting money from my statutory sick pay - but that's another story.

chrisbur

GlasweJen wrote: »

Hi, I don't have my payslips all to hand now (staying at my mums tonight so I can post them tomorrow night if that's ok?).

I do wonder what you mean by me getting some of my pay tax free though, I didn't think I get anything tax free but if you mean the £15k figure then I definitely haven't been paid this much by them so I'm not sure why it's there on my payslip?

ETA my tax code is 810L.

I will be here tomorrow night. To get a better idea of where the tax free bit is coming from can you give the payslip details for month 1?