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New job and tax query

route101
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I recently started a job. I noticed the tax code is 990L and wondering if I'm on the wrong tax code. Annual salary is around £26,500 and getting taxed around £250 a month. Is this wrong?+
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Far too little information to say. 990L means you have a personal tax allowance of about £9900 this year as opposed to the standard 1257L (£12570) which means HMRC are potentially recovering an underpayment of tax, possibly from a prior tax year. The only way to know is to contact HMRC and ask them or look on your online tax account if you have registered for that
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Did you have two jobs at the same time (even if just for a small period of time) and now just have one?
Or is this your first job in this tax year?0 -
Is this your first payslip or has the tax code changed since starting new job?
Have you had a P45 from old job? If so tax code on that ?0 -
Maybe you had a company car or other Benefit in Kinds (BIK) before and now HMRC are trying to catch up?
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route101 said:I recently started a job. I noticed the tax code is 990L and wondering if I'm on the wrong tax code. Annual salary is around £26,500 and getting taxed around £250 a month. Is this wrong?+
You can either login to your HMRC tax account online or phone them to ask what's going on.
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MalMonroe said:route101 said:I recently started a job. I noticed the tax code is 990L and wondering if I'm on the wrong tax code. Annual salary is around £26,500 and getting taxed around £250 a month. Is this wrong?+
You can either login to your HMRC tax account online or phone them to ask what's going on.2 -
Dazed_and_C0nfused said:Did you have two jobs at the same time (even if just for a small period of time) and now just have one?
Or is this your first job in this tax year?0 -
bermudianmark said:Maybe you had a company car or other Benefit in Kinds (BIK) before and now HMRC are trying to catch up?
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route101 said:Dazed_and_C0nfused said:Did you have two jobs at the same time (even if just for a small period of time) and now just have one?
Or is this your first job in this tax year?
It still seems likely you may have had two jobs at the same time for tax purposes i.e. paid by two employers in the same tax period.
You can check your Personal Tax Account and post details of how the tax code is calculated? It's probably correct but without the breakdown it's all guesswork. There could be literally millions of reasons why someone's tax code could be 990L.0
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