Emailing a p45

Betty_Haze

I left a sale assistant position a few weeks ago to work for a different business and now waiting to receive my P45 from my previous employer. Upon reminding my previous employer to send it, I was told that " Our email is down I'll send your P45 as soon as I'm able".

I have always received my P45 in the post and wondered if this is now common practise, as I don't really want to be paying emergency tax if this information is incorrect.

Thanks in advance for any reply!!

Darksparkle

There is nothing to say it must be posted, only that you need to be provided with one. Just the same as with payslips, P60's etc.

HMRC confirmed this last June.

DCFC79

Can you not go and pick it up ?

Betty_Haze

Thank you for your replies. My previous employer is not someone you can catch easily, and I presumed post is how it was done.

Undervalued

You can also download and fill in a P46 and give that to your new employer instead.

However I am a bit out of date and I have a feeling a P46 may now have a new name.

Darksparkle

Undervalued wrote: »

You can also download and fill in a P46 and give that to your new employer instead.

However I am a bit out of date and I have a feeling a P46 may now have a new name.

It does, it's now called a starter checklist.

This would put the OP on 1060L W1/M1, the emergency tax code. This means that the OP does get a personal allowance each month but doesn't take into account t previous pay and tax details which could lead to under/overpayment depending on circumstances.