HMRC Tax and Employment Benefits

Amyx_2

Hi All,

I am looking for some help regarding HMRC Tax and Employment benefits.

HMRC No longer class resident caretakers living on site as exempt from 2010-2011. I did not know this until I received a letter stating I am now due nearly £9000.00 to HMRC. I have contacted my employer but they're not interested and said this must be paid by me. Surely when HMRC changed this they informed my employers and expected them to deduct my wages accordingly? I find it very unfair that I have been left with this huge amount of money to pay back and my employers who obviously created this mess have washed their hands.

Is their anything I can do? Would HMRC give my employer any prior knowledge of this change to policy either before the change or after? PAYE is out out of my hands and dealt with by them payroll, I believe they should be held accountable for this.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance

antrobus

Amyx wrote: »

Hi All,

I am looking for some help regarding HMRC Tax and Employment benefits.

HMRC No longer class resident caretakers living on site as exempt from 2010-2011. I did not know this until I received a letter stating I am now due nearly £9000.00 to HMRC. I have contacted my employer but they're not interested and said this must be paid by me. Surely when HMRC changed this they informed my employers and expected them to deduct my wages accordingly? I find it very unfair that I have been left with this huge amount of money to pay back and my employers who obviously created this mess have washed their hands.

Is their anything I can do? Would HMRC give my employer any prior knowledge of this change to policy either before the change or after? PAYE is out out of my hands and dealt with by them payroll, I believe they should be held accountable for this.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance

Is this a question about the taxation of benefit in kind received in the form of free accomodation?

Specifically;

Recent changes to employment law and practice have in a number of cases removed the requirement for resident caretakers and resident wardens of sheltered housing schemes to be on call outside normal working hours. HMRC therefore no longer accepts that these types of employee automatically come within the exemption in Section 99(1) ITEPA. This change applies to resident wardens for tax years 2006-07 onwards and to resident caretakers for 2010-11 onwards.

http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/manuals/eimanual/eim11342.htm

It might be better to pose the question on the Cutting Tax board
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/forumdisplay.php?f=22

Amyx_2

Sorry I'm new and don't know how to move this to the correct place? Thank you

Amyx_2

ANTRIBUS: yes this is the one I'm on about