Owe Taxman £840.00

bowmar977

Hi There, Friend of mine works for small bowling club. For the year 2003/2004 she had wrong tax code and underpaid tax (Scottish) by £840.00, she reckons that the bowling club are responsible and should pay that sum for her and has threatened to go to court.
I worry that this will cost her extra money (In court fees Etc), as i always believed that tax is your own responsibility. After all if you overpay and get a rebate you wouldn't share it with your employer haha.
Can anyone advise on the legality/law, in regards to this situation.
Thanks in advance.
John

fengirl_2

Did your friend receive a notice of coding and did she check that this code number was being used by her employer? If the wrong code was being operated, did she query this with her employer? Did the employer ignore this and did your friend then take it up with HMRC?
If an employer has been issued with a code number for an employee and failed to use it, the onus is on the employee to raise it with the employer. If the employer fails to rectify the matter, then HMRC would normally require the employer to pay the unpaid tax - no need to go to court.
If your fraind failed to do any of the above, I don't think she has much of a case.