Tax on injury compensation payment

Did46

Can I reclaim the 20% govt taxed me on £10,000 work injury payout if so how do I do this
when I say tax I mean theft 

tacpot12

It would be as well to ask the party that paid you the compensation why it was taxed in the first place. If they got it wrong, you will be able to claim it back, but if the tax was deducted correctly you won't. 

MalMonroe

Did46 said:

Can I reclaim the 20% govt taxed me on £10,000 work injury payout if so how do I do this
when I say tax I mean theft 

I was taxed on the interest of a refund I received from HSBC when it was paying out people because incorrect charges in the early 2000s. (You remember?)

I logged on to my HRMC account and proceeded to fill in the form HSBC had advised would be needed by HMRC so any incorrectly deducted tax could be returned. However, there must have been something in my cup of tea that day because I did it all wrong. Consequently HMRC wrote to me, very politely, to ask if I could please explain a few points for them. 

I ended up writing a letter to HMRC, telling them exactly what had happened and explaining that I wished to claim the tax back, please. 

Hey bingo! Not long after that I logged in to my HMRC account again and there was a note to say that I had been refunded some tax and it had gone straight into my bank account.

So why not try that? Just write HMRC a letter. They are the only ones who can reimburse you, contacting the party who reimbursed you will just waste your time and theirs since they are only following government directives. 

I'm sure that an explanatory letter will work. Well, it worked for me, so why not?