Tax when I shouldn't have been. Am I entitled to my money back before pay day?

white_rosette

I have been working at the same place for 11 years. Over the last 5 years they have been contracting our department out so we have been passed from company to company.
We have just tupe'd over to another company and got our first wage slip.
We have all been emergency taxed and our line manager told us that it was because the company hadn't been sent our tax codes from the tax office and we will get it back next month. However a colleague of mine rang the HR department and they said that it was because they hadn't received our P45's. I find it hard to believe that they haven't received them as all the paper work was sent off together and I also filled in a P46. ANother manager on site said that this company was notorious for holding back as much money as it could.
I don't pay tax as I only earn £3k a year (which they know as it was all on the paperwork sent to them). I have had £75 taken off me which, on such a small wage, is a lot of money. I am going to ring the company in the morning but do I have a legal write to this money back before next months wage?

Cheers

anamenottaken

white_rosette wrote: »

I have been working at the same place for 11 years. Over the last 5 years they have been contracting our department out so we have been passed from company to company.
We have just tupe'd over to another company and got our first wage slip.
We have all been emergency taxed and our line manager told us that it was because the company hadn't been sent our tax codes from the tax office and we will get it back next month. However a colleague of mine rang the HR department and they said that it was because they hadn't received our P45's. I find it hard to believe that they haven't received them as all the paper work was sent off together and I also filled in a P46. ANother manager on site said that this company was notorious for holding back as much money as it could.
I don't pay tax as I only earn £3k a year (which they know as it was all on the paperwork sent to them). I have had £75 taken off me which, on such a small wage, is a lot of money. I am going to ring the company in the morning but do I have a legal write to this money back before next months wage?

Cheers

Why did you complete a P46 when there should have been a P45? Have you seen your, employee, copy of the P45?

What tax code has been applied? Emergency tax code is 944L which would give you the standard tax-free allowance for the month.

Rather than a legal right to the excess deduction being paid to you (when if the employer may claim they have deducted it because they don't have appropriate paperwork), you could ask for an advance of pay of an equivalent amount and then things would be sorted out next payday.