Company double declaring income

SuperCat007

Hello,

I need some advice please - not 100% sure this is the right place on the forum though...


Last year the company I worked for merged with a sister company and payroll double declared my income for April - July 2018 - so it looked like I was getting a salary from both companies. I left in July 2018 to start at another company.

HMRC put me on a BR then a K tax code to claim it back, but it was finally sorted by the company last December.

I received my pay check again today to see that >£700 has been taken in tax and I am on a K tax code again. On checking my tax account I can see that I have 2 salary entries for February and 3 salary entries for March 2019. I have no idea how badly they have failed for May - July as I can't see that.

I am leaving this company on 30th of this month so I have lost a big chunk of my final pay check that can't be righted until I get my pay from my new company (assuming they can get this right).

I will speak to payroll on Monday, but I wanted some advice from people who understand better about:

Why or how I could have been double/triple declared?
Who (if anyone) can sort this so I have some money before I get paid by my new company at the end of August because this has left me short?
Any legislation or anything I should quote in a conversation with payroll/HR?
Anything else I should consider to get this resolved ASAP.

Dazed_and_confused

Why or how I could have been double/triple declared?

You have answered this yourself for the first instance. Two different, albeit connected, employers reported salary payments to HMRC. This situation crops up occasionally on here so it seems unlucky for this to have happened to you once, incredibly unlucky for you to have moved to a completely different employer and it happen again.

Who (if anyone) can sort this so I have some money before I get paid by my new company at the end of August because this has left me short?

Unless you are due a further payment from the employer you are about to leave I suspect the answer is no one.

Any legislation or anything I should quote in a conversation with payroll/HR?

Not sure about legislation but it is the companies best interests to sort this out ASAP. If they have reported double income that means double tax and double National Insurance will be due to be paid over to HMRC by the company. So the sooner they correct the sooner they will stop HMRC pursuing this apparently fake/false debt.

Anything else I should consider to get this resolved ASAP.

Check your P45 is correct and if not don't hand it in to your new employer. Ask the new employer for a new starter declaration form instead.

SuperCat007

Dazed_and_confused wrote: »

You have answered this yourself for the first instance. Two different, albeit connected, employers reported salary payments to HMRC. This situation crops up occasionally on here so it seems unlucky for this to have happened to you once, incredibly unlucky for you to have moved to a completely different employer and it happen again.



Unless you are due a further payment from the employer you are about to leave I suspect the answer is no one.



Not sure about legislation but it is the companies best interests to sort this out ASAP. If they have reported double income that means double tax and double National Insurance will be due to be paid over to HMRC by the company. So the sooner they correct the sooner they will stop HMRC pursuing this apparently fake/false debt.



Check your P45 is correct and if not don't hand it in to your new employer. Ask the new employer for a new starter declaration form instead.

Thank you so much. I hadn't thought about the P45. Having spoken to HMRC they have said, as you did, fill in a new starter declaration, then when I have a PAYE ref & payroll number to call HMRC so that I'm not put on an emergency code (again) for August AND can hopefully get the refund from July as well. Meaning I don't have to wait until the end of September to be paid my actual salary.

Dazed_and_confused

What is your normal tax code for this tax year?

dollywops

Were you actually paid twice?

SuperCat007

Dazed_and_confused wrote: »

What is your normal tax code for this tax year?

The standard on 1249L I think.

SuperCat007

dollywops wrote: »

Were you actually paid twice?

I wish. Nope, I received my normal salary for both months. It's almost as if someone has got impatient pressing a button and pressed three times instead of once.

Dazed_and_confused

The standard on 1249L I think.

The standard tax code is 1250L on a cumulative basis.

The emergency tax code is 1250L on a non-cumulative basis i.e. only that payment is looked at when the tax is calculated. So you get the first £1042/month before any tax would be deducted.

Emergency tax being a big issue is really misleading, you probably won't notice much if any difference in the short term.