Short-term role at Asda, should I have been taxed?

AdviceSought

So, on my final shift the other night, I received my payslip for the first couple of weeks worth of shifts.

On the payslip it has "Taxable pay" as £683.09, with the following deductions:

N.I. A - £6.61
Income Tax - £136.60

Given I came into this role after a period of unemployment, this seems odd to me.

hcb42

did you hand in a p45 in time?

if you have been taxed and don't owe it, then it will catch up and you will see it being returned once you do

AdviceSought

hcb42 wrote: »

did you hand in a p45 in time?

if you have been taxed and don't owe it, then it will catch up and you will see it being returned once you do

My P45 from my previous job was handed in on my induction day.

hcb42

have you spoken to payroll in that case?

chrisbur

Tax has been deducted at 20% so suggests either BR code or 0T.
This suggests that your payroll dept has not received a P45 or new starter declaration allowing emergency tax to be used.

You say that " came into this role after a period of unemployment" and "My P45 from my previous job was handed in"
Your P45 from your previous job should have been handed in to the jobcentre when you signed on and the jobcentre issues a P45 for your new employer.

In the first instance contact your payroll dept to see what they have ie old P45 ? Any new starter declaration if so which section did you fill in A B or C? Have you had a P45 yet from jobcentre?

AdviceSought

So, Payroll have now advised me that I should contact HMRC to get this refunded.

Can anyone advise how long this should take?

Comms69

AdviceSought wrote: »

So, Payroll have now advised me that I should contact HMRC to get this refunded.

Can anyone advise how long this should take?

Will happen automatically around May

TELLIT01

Comms69 wrote: »

Will happen automatically around May

That's because they won't refund potentially over paid tax part way through the tax year. They can only do the calculation once all pay for the tax year has been received.

RichardD1970

TELLIT01 wrote: »

That's because they won't refund potentially over paid tax part way through the tax year. They can only do the calculation once all pay for the tax year has been received.

My daughter got hers around September.

May be slightly different as she is a apprentice, so earning well below the tax level.

She was on a BR tax code for a few months, probably due to a mess up by the company, eventually (after much prompting, teenagers eh! :mad: ) she phoned the tax office and got it all sorted and it was repaid on a subsequent payslip.

robatwork

Firstly you don't make it clear how much if any you have earned this year - if it's over 11500 then you should be paying tax.

As said earlier you are probably on a BR code which is 20% on ALL earnings - 20% of 683 is 136. This is an emergency code so your P45 info hasn't got through to your payroll yet or more likely HMRC have made a mistake.

Contact HMRC by calling or, if you have a govt gateway ID, go online and send them a query.

You will get the money back in your tax code if you are owed it, next tax year ie. after April.

Dazed_and_confused

You will get the money back in your tax code if you are owed it, next tax year ie. after April.

This won't happen. You can get money back through your wages in the same tax year, as in RichardD1970's post, but not in a later tax year.

If you are no longer working or claiming Jobseekers Allowance or Employment Support Allowance then you can make a claim from HMRC once you get your P45 from Asda.

Exactly how and when you can get a refund is impossible to say though without more information about your circumstances.

You could have avoided the tax being deducted by making sure Asda used the emergency tax code which allows you to be paid nearly £1000/month with no tax.