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Tax refund following retirement

dreaming · 2013-10-22 10:40:15

I recently took early retirement (Aug 2013) from my job for which I received a salary of just over £30k - my tax code then was D0. In September I received notification of new tax code of 856L and yesterday received my first pension payment which I was hoping to use to plan my budget for the next few months. However all…

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brewerdave Posts: 8,899 Forumite

24 October 2013 at 11:55AM

dreaming wrote: »

Hope this correct as I feel as if I have just sat my O level maths again (which I only just scraped through;)). Thank you for bearing with me on this.

O Level Maths?Our self assessment tax system seems more like an exam in theoretical astrophysics to me !:rotfl:

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