Underpaid tax for earlier years included in your tax code for 2017-18

am.jovial

I am a public sector employee and I am filling the tax return online. I have to answer this question:
"Underpaid tax for for earlier years included in your tax code for 2017-18( from your PAYE notice of coding)?"

Please could anyone tell me how and from where do I get this information? Is it possible to find this info for me online by logging into HMRC website?

Dazed_and_confused

Not sure if that is available online or not but what you need is to see the make up of your final tax code for 2017:18, the one in use at the end of the tax year.

am.jovial

what you need is to see the make up of your final tax code for 2017:18, the one in use at the end of the tax year.

Thanks for your reply. How or from where I can get this info? Will it be on any letter like p60, p800 refund?

Dazed_and_confused

It is called a P2 (notice of coding).

am.jovial

I haven't seen p2 so far. May be I haven't been sent one so far. So, I should answer 'no' and move on.

am.jovial

So, I should answer 'no' and move on?

Dazed_and_confused

If you are filing the return direct with HMRC and they haven't included a figure in advance then yes go with that approach.

HMRC can simply alter the return if there should have been an entry in that box.

John_Pierpoint

Me too!

I was offered "0.00" so I clicked the YES option and the system refused to accept my reply.
I then copied the "0.00" offered and clicked the NO option and pasted the 0.00.
That got rejected as an invalid character.
What the system wanted was a simple 0.
Presumably, that is the right answer as last year's return (16/17) generated a tax refund of £60 into my building society account.
Now that HMRC is trying to introduce the Dutch system, where the tax collector sends a return with the figures already completed and asks you to sign it, I noticed the same problem with other income fields where the field already read 0.00.

Dazed_and_confused

Presumably, that is the right answer as last year's return (16/17) generated a tax refund of £60 into my building society account.

0 may be the correct answer but definitely not for the reason given.

Any Self Assessment tax owed for 2016:17 would have been included in your current (2018:19) tax code.

It is tax owed for 2015:16 which would have been included in your 2017:18 tax code.

John_Pierpoint

You are right.
If I leave the wretched Self Assesment until this time of year, I get somewhat schizophrenic about which year I am in, not to mention that some missing item of information might have got itself "archived" off a company website.


I always insist on settling up each tax year as an entity (if I can) to avoid the possibility of getting into a Buggin's muddle with brought forward and carried forward figures. My memory is not as good as it used to be :-)