Previous Employer kept my tax rebate?!

RedHitman

The "dodgy" question is, why did my previous employer keep telling HMRC for a further 10 weeks that I was still an employee?

In retrospect they are a terrible company. My leaving was triggered by how they treated a fellow employee upon her leaving. She worked her 4 weeks notice and on her last week (the fourth) they didn't pay her.
It's a long story but they treated her terribly, so out of principle I also left as there was no way I could work for someone who treated their staff like that (I knew I would have some sort of problem when I came to leave - and I wasn't wrong!)

They're a very vindictive company and there's absolutely no doubt this was done out of spite to make things awkward for me.

[Deleted User]

RedHitman wrote: »

I didn't. I got my P60 this April from my new employer and it only has on it the wages I earned from them, not the wages from the previous employer.

I requested a document through the tax office to see how much I'd earned up until my new employer and this is how all this has come about. My old employer didn't declare I'd left them until 2 months later, and the document says I paid no tax with them (which of course I did and have my wages slips to prove it).... Because I was on a zero hour contract the tax office still had me as employed but not earning anything, so started to pay back the tax I had been being so far (this is common on zero hour contracts). Over that 2 months they paid back the tax I had already paid to my old employer, who then never paid it to me.

You need to obtain your P45 from your old employer to solve this. If they did indeed receive a coding notice to change your code and refunded the tax then it may well be by the end of the year you hadn't paid any tax so the figures reported to HMRC were correct.

RedHitman

Deleted_User wrote: »

You need to obtain your P45 from your old employer to solve this. If they did indeed receive a coding notice to change your code and refunded the tax then it may well be by the end of the year you hadn't paid any tax so the figures reported to HMRC were correct.

I requested it by post, text and email for 3 months after I left and they completely ignored me.

My wife is due to leave in 2 weeks (they don't know yet) and I already know she will encounter the same problems. They're horrible people who don't give a !!!!!! about people or the rules.

Majestic12

RedHitman wrote: »

I requested it by post, text and email for 3 months after I left and they completely ignored me.

My wife is due to leave in 2 weeks (they don't know yet) and I already know she will encounter the same problems. They're horrible people who don't give a !!!!!! about people or the rules.

Could you not give HMRC a call, telling them the situation about no P45 issued (which they do take seriously) and they should be able to give the ex-employer a big prod.

RedHitman

Majestic12 wrote: »

Could you not give HMRC a call, telling them the situation about no P45 issued (which they do take seriously) and they should be able to give the ex-employer a big prod.

That's exactly what's happening. I've had to write to HMRC telling them the story and they will now speak to my ex-employer asking them why they did what they did.

They won't respond though, I know it.

Savvy_Sue

RedHitman wrote: »

That's exactly what's happening. I've had to write to HMRC telling them the story and they will now speak to my ex-employer asking them why they did what they did.

They won't respond though, I know it.

Oh, I think you'll find HMRC have ways of making them talk ...