P45, P60 and general tax help

System

I think you have to phone your local tax office and ask for a tax code and then give it to your new employer

Plumpud_3

1) how can he chase his P45? I think he will have overpaid tax as he was only working for 6 months of the last tax year but he can't chase without a P45.

An employer is legally obliged to provide a P45 on the last day of employment. It comes under a Statutory Instrument, I've got the number written down somwhere but can't find it. Most employers don't know this legislation.

The end of year details should be with the Tax Office that deal with that previous employer by now. Check with them, if they are still outstanding, ask them to chase it up. The employer will get a visit if the information is not forthcoming. Your Husband will only be entitled to a refund of tax if he had tax deducted. If he earned £89 per week or less (£4615 for the year) he is below both the tax and national insurance limits.

2) who is responsible for giving him a P60? The tax office has told him different things at different times. If it makes any difference, he wasn't paid by the new employer til after the new tax year, but some of that pay obviously covered end March-5 April.

You Husband would not have been entitled to a P60 in this instance. He was no longer employed by the first employer, so there is not one due from there. He was no longer signing on, so was not due one from there (but even if he was, it would only have shown the taxable benefit, and only for the last period of signing on). He had started work for the new employer, but no wages were paid prior to the 6th April, so a P60 is not due from there either.

You are only entitled to a P60 if you were working for an employer at the 5th April and they had paid you wages in the year up to that date.

Congratulations on your marriage in March!

I am not a tax expert, but I know that you used to be able to get a married person's tax allowances for the whole tax year even if you married in the last month/week/day of the tax year.

Married couple's allowance was abolished some time ago. The last year it applied was the year ended 5th April 2000. You can now only get it if you were born before 6/4/1935.

I also have a question for those helpful people out there I have been a housewife for six years, my husband is in employment, so I have never claimed benefits and so forth. I am now taking a big step and hoping to return to work (permanent or temping). However, I do not have a clue about P45 and my last job was in an office for a company that is no longer in exsistence? Does anybody know what paperwork I need to do and how I can get a P45? Thanks Clare

If you start a new job and you are not able to hand in a recent P45, you need to obtain a form P46 from your employer, then sign it to say it is your only or main job (unless of course it isn't. Your employer should be able to give you further details.