Tax Rebate

[new2me]

Taking into account how poor RM are at almost every imaginable administration task, can someone tell me if I can expect my tax rebate in my wages soon; only been working since Nov and am well under the tax allowance threshold? It SHOULD be a nice little lump in my pay packet soon, but knowing this lot, i'll be expected to dance around the DO with shorts on my head for it. it.

[TrueBlueTerrier]

I went through the Tax Office when I got a rebate so it might be worth checking with them, if its just confirmation its going through okay.

[new2me]

Cheers, i'll give it a couple of weeks

[cobberwebb]

I was in the same boat a year ago. You have to claim it yourself if you want it sooner rather than later. Unfortunately it means contacting HM Revenue and you might have to provide them with some other information like: total claim from job seekers. You can't blame RM for this one.

[new2me]

According to the HMRC website, it should be dealt with by employers in the wages.
Dare I say, I worked for them for 12 months and I know how farcical HMRC have been, but all this should be done automatically now; a new system was put into place last year as far as I remember.

[bustedflush]

I was in that situation, and the IR sent me a cheque in May/June (I can't quite remember) after the calculations for the previous tax year ending April 6 were done. If RM had the correct information you would already have received it through your wages via having a high tax-free allowance thus taking more home until you 'caught up' with the weekly tax tables
This tends to happen when you sign on for short periods or have a few employers in a short space of time before RM.

Don't expect it through your wages - it won't happen now.

Basically RM have you on a 'week 1' tax basis (This means you get taxed each week as if it was the first week of the financial year, i.e. have neither owed nor been owed any tax thus far.)
This occurs when RM don't have the correct p45 information.

[CPTNemoUK]

By the sounds of it I was a lucky one. I also started in November and I got a tax rebate around January. I weren't even expecting it which was a nice surprise.

[new2me]

Basically RM have you on a 'week 1' tax basis (This means you get taxed each week as if it was the first week of the financial year, i.e. have neither owed nor been owed any tax thus far.) This occurs when RM don't have the correct p45 information.

This should be changed at the start of the tax year, if I remember rightly and the correct code applied. As we're on weekly pay, i'll give it until the second wage slip to see what's what (can't be bothered waiting on the phone, only to be told I have to contact someone else having worked for them previously).

[bustedflush]

Basically RM have you on a 'week 1' tax basis (This means you get taxed each week as if it was the first week of the financial year, i.e. have neither owed nor been owed any tax thus far.) This occurs when RM don't have the correct p45 information.

This should be changed at the start of the tax year, if I remember rightly and the correct code applied. As we're on weekly pay, i'll give it until the second wage slip to see what's what (can't be bothered waiting on the phone, only to be told I have to contact someone else having worked for them previously).

You are both right and wrong there mate. It WILL be changed as your 'week 1/month 1' status actually becomes totally correct at the start of the new financial year BUT not because RM have the necessary paperwork, simply because week 1/month 1 naturally starts then.

What will happen is that a P60 will be given to you and your local tax office in mid-April by RM. The local tax office will then collate your previous years' payments/allowances before November last from other employers/benefits agency with this P60 and calculate a refund of overpayment which they will issue via cheque. It is unlikely you'll get it through your wages in the new financial year but not impossible. I'd bet on the cheque...