Wrong date for address held by HMRC

Bluepetal

I hope this is the right section!

I have an issue which I have recently discovered on the HMRC Personal Tax Government Gateway.

It states that my main address has been recorded from 2016, however I have been there since 2013. I have been with my employer since 2012 and changed my address after 1 year to the main address. I have been receiving my end of year letters from HMRC every year to this address, and every single pay statement has this address too.

According to the HMRC, this date can not be amended to reflect the change.

Surely this date can be changed.

Has anyone else had any experience with this?

Dazed_and_confused

What do you mean by "end of year letters"?

Why is it so important to you for it to be changed?

Asghar

Bluepetal wrote: »

It states that my main address has been recorded from 2016, however I have been there since 2013.

You want HRMC to show your main address where you are currently living as having been there since 2013 and not 2016 as recorded?

As long as you have been receiving all your letters since 2013 to this address, which you say you have, then does it really matter?

agrinnall

Is it showing a different adress prior to 2016? If not then it may simply be that 2016 is when a date was first put against your address, and is probably nothing to worry about. While you're right that it would be possible to change the date it may not be a field that can be easily amended and the cost of doing the update would not be justified.

glider3560

Mine doesn't have the right date either. I think they automatically updated the addresses at some point, as my address changed from "Rd" to "Road" at the same point as the date shows.

jimmo

Mine too but the date they have is the date I retired (2006). We moved here some 15+ years before that.
Also I received a rebate last month so I don't think that wrong date is terribly important.

chrismac1

Whilst this may seem trivial, it sort of typifies the rubbishy service all too often on offer from HMRC. And whilst 95% of the time this date will not matter, it could sometimes.


For example, if this property were to be let at some date in the future, HMRC could challenge a CGT calculation on the basis that the taxpayer has lived in the property only since 2016 not 2013.


Anyone who deals with HMRC regularly knows only too well how mind-numbingly pedantic they can be when it suits them. Just saying "We know we have the wrong date but we can't be arrzzed to change it" just doesn't cut it.


How would it be if every month I said "I know I have the right payroll data but I can't be bothered to change it from last month, sorry if that means I pay you £5k less PAYE?"


I think we all know the answer to that.

badmemory

I would also be concerned that at some point in the future when having to confirm my identity that this date may come up. Which one will they accept, the correct one or the erroneous one they have insisted on retaining?