Son's (he is a student) tax code is 1070L - why?

Anthear

I wondered if anyone had any ideas as to why my son, who is a student, has a tax code for this year of 1070L?  Why doesn't he have a standard personal allowance.  He doesn't have any investments etc that need tax paying on and his earnings from a part time job don't take him over his allowance, but puzzled as to why it is different...... he hasn't had a tax code notification from HMRC.

Just noticed that last tax year the codes used were 1077L and it changed in month 8 to 1063L, now it is 1070L.

Any ideas welcome.  :-)

zagfles

Bank interest? Though it would have to be a lot of interest!

He needs to register/logon to his tax account and check how the tax code is made up

https://www.gov.uk/government/organisations/hm-revenue-customs

kazwookie

Contact HMRC and ask them, he will need is nat ins number etc

Dazed_and_C0nfused

You only lose some personal allowance if your adjusted net income is > £100k.

He will have a deduction for something in his code reducing his tax code allowances.

But unless he earns more than £10,709 it won't have any impact on him.

Dazed_and_C0nfused

he hasn't had a tax code notification from HMRC.

It looks like they wouldn't send one to him when there a change but no tax is going to be deducted

https://www.litrg.org.uk/tax-guides/employment/how-do-i-check-my-coding-notice

Anthear

Dazed_and_C0nfused said:

You only lose some personal allowance if your adjusted net income is > £100k.

He will have a deduction for something in his code reducing his tax code allowances.

But unless he earns more than £10,709 it won't have any impact on him.

Hi - he earns about £3k a year - and yes, the change doesn't impact him at present, but curious as to why  and HMRC are a complete nightmare to get through to.  I'll ask him to register for the online service in the meantime.  

Anthear

kazwookie said:

Contact HMRC and ask them, he will need is nat ins number etc

Easier said than done at the moment - it's a nightmare to get through!  You're on hold for what feels like forever....

sheramber

Phone a few minutes before the official opening time.  There is normally staff in who will answer.