Worried: Inflated my current salary to recruitment agency

rtho782

Just fill in a P46, then speak to the tax office to sort your tax out, or don't bother, sit on a month 1 basis until april, and claim it back next year if you've overpaid.

PixelPound

If you have only told the recruitment agency and not the company, then I see no problem. Send in your P45 or fill in a P46 with accurate data, don't lie on that. I seriously doubt anything will be mentioned, if it did then you could say you told the recruiter what your minimum expected salary was, £11k above existing as you were underpaid your worth. Your new company are willing to pay you what you are worth to them, so it doesn't matter what you were paid previously.

MataNui

Dont worry about it. Your P45 will be processed by payroll. The people who interviewed you wont have anything at all to do with so nobody will ever know.

Hominu

agrinnall wrote: »

A P60 would be of absolutely no use as it is a record of the previous tax year. I cannot think of any circumstance in which a new employer would ask for it, or any in which there would be any reason for the employee to hand it over. I think you may be confused about what a P60 is.

In my last job I got the option of either giving them my P60 or accepting a statement of "Emergency Tax". I had no idea what emergency tax was and then just told "You'll pay a lot more tax than you need to" which sounded like a bad idea so I handed over my P60.

tacpot12

If anyone does raise it as an issue you could just say you misunderstood the question and that you quoted your package rather than your salary. I don't think you will have a problem though.

Gavin83

vrealm wrote: »

I don't want to start off as a lair and someone that can't be trusted, but I deserve the pay and even more, but willing to work my way up.

Then why lie?

They probably won't find out but if they do your looking at a best case scenario of a black mark against your name, worst case scenario you'll lose your job.

Like it or not it paints you as a dishonest person. If I was your boss I'd worry about what else you could lie about. However as I said they probably won't find out, their best chance would be via a reference IMO.

Is it really worth the stress your now likely feeling?

Noctu

Put your P45 in and if it's queried, say you had an £11k pay rise shortly before you accepted the new position so that's why it doesn't reflect in your paperwork?

t0rt0ise

You most likely won't get your P45 in time anyway so just fill in a P46 instead. Emergency codes aren't what they used to be, you'll simply pay basic tax and the tax office will tell them your new code very quickly. That's what I did with my last job move.