I lied and I am confused about my new employer seeing my p45! Help!

chrisbur

steampowered wrote: »

I would just say you don't have a P45. It is common for people not to have one or to lose it.

This may mean you get put on an emergency tax code and pay more income tax than you would have otherwise needed to the next few months. But you should get that income tax back through PAYE over time.

If that causes you financial problems over the next few months you'll have to chalk that up as the cost of lying. At least paying more tax is better than not having a job.

Just saying you have lost your P45 does not mean that your P45 gross and tax figures are not seen by the new employer, it just delays them. If the OP is really worried about these figures being seen they need to contact HMRC as I advised earlier so that they can be left on the emergency tax code until the end of the tax year.

Nookie5

lincroft1710 wrote: »

I would think most employers who found they had been lied to by an employee would seek to terminate that employment. Lie at your peril!

Most employers never find out if an employee lied to them, and the people who are stubborn about being honest are the ones still unemployed, never making it to the interview room or getting the job. Employers will just give them oh we found a more suitable candidate when the real reason is your honesty sabotaged your job opportunity.

McKneff

Thats because you left your job i this financial year. Its a statement of what you have earned up to leaving your job

molerat

Read the instructions on the front of the P45. It tells you exactly what you need to do in this scenario in the "To the employee" section.

lincroft1710

Nookie5 wrote: »

Most employers never find out if an employee lied to them, and the people who are stubborn about being honest are the ones still unemployed, never making it to the interview room or getting the job. Employers will just give them oh we found a more suitable candidate when the real reason is your honesty sabotaged your job opportunity.

Whatever. Telling people to lie to their employer is still poor advice

nicechap

lincroft1710 wrote: »

Whatever. Telling people to lie to their employer is still poor advice

It certainly is, but then the poster (not the OP) remains bitter at being sacked for theft when they worked in security.

Their contributions to the forum seemed aimed at making other people's lives/ work experience as awful as their own.