Tax Rebate for this Financial Year

SarahC1978

I recently stopped work as I have gone abroad for 6 months. Due to my salary I was paying higher rate tax on my earnings for the 3 months of the year I worked.  Consequently I have paid too much tax by about £4000 and would very much like it back!

I completed an online request and provided my P45 info at the end of may when I left my job but have heard nothing from HMRC as yet.  I can't see a way of changing my estimated earnings on my personal tax account either.

I can't complete the form for being overseas as that states you should do it if you're moving abroad permanently, and I'm not.  However I probably won't be back this tax year and if I am I won't claim benefits or work.

Do I just have to wait until April when they figure it out themselves or is there a way to get the money back sooner?

Dazed_and_C0nfused

Do you mean you completed form P50?

Have you checked the progress of this on your Personal Tax Account?

[Deleted User]

As Dazed says:

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/income-tax-claiming-tax-back-when-you-have-stopped-working-p50

SarahC1978

Hi.  Yes I completed a P50 online some months ago.  However when I look in my personal tax account I can't see the claim reference number at all.

I have resubmitted it again today.  
If I have to wait until the end of the tax year so be it!