Erroneous Tax Code Notice due to duplicate Civil Service Pension

Jonx999

This is just for information in case it affects anyone else with a Civil Service Pension...

A few days ago I received a Tax Code Notice containing a very large adjustment triggered by the addition of an extra non-existent pension. I receive a Civil Service Pension; the extra pension was a Civil Service Widows and Dependants Pension for the same amount. Hence my apparent income had doubled overnight, triggering a tax code adjustment to gather the large amount of extra tax suddenly owed in this FY.

I phoned HMRC to query this, and the guy there wasn't surprised. He said a lot of CSP recipients had been affected by errors caused by a change in pension provider. In my case the error had already been detected and corrected, but not before the Tax Code Notice was issued.

So if you receive such a notice don't panic, it will probably be automatically corrected although a quick call to HMRC might be worthwhile.

molerat

There have been a couple of posts on the subject already

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6644809/frustration-with-hmrc/p3

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/6644363/new-capita-run-civil-service-pension-scheme-problems-what-a-surprise/p13

Jonx999

molerat said:

There have been a couple of posts on the subject already

Ah, OK, sorry.  I did a search before posting but didn't spot those.

Marcon

Jonx999 said:

molerat said:

There have been a couple of posts on the subject already

Ah, OK, sorry.  I did a search before posting but didn't spot those.

Nothing to apologise for. The fact you didn't spot them, even though you searched, means they weren't that easy to spot. Your post is great because the title says it all!