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In basic terms, everyone gets a tax-free allowance on their earnings up to £11,000.So for every £1 you earn up to a maximum of £11,000, you pay zero tax - this is the personal allowanceAfter this you pay 20p for every £1 you earn, until you earn £43,000 - this is the basic rateAfter this you pay 40p for every £1 you earn, until you earn £150,000 - this is the higher rateAfter this you pay 45p for every £1 you earn- this is the additional rateYou usually get taxed based on a whole year projection. So if you were doing a job with a £20,000 salary, but only for 6 months, you'd still get taxed whilst you working at the basic rate. However, when you stopped after 6 months you'd only have made £10,000, so you'd be due a rebate. HMRC won't usually know about this until after the end of the tax year in April, and you may have to chase them for it.National Insurance works in a different way
In March I cashed a pension pot in and they taxed me on all three rates so I'll be ringing them in May if I haven't heard from them.
That need'nt be taxing.
What you've got to remember is when you call HMRC you basically get through to call centre monkeys who are poorly trained through no fault of their own due to cut backs etc
What sort of resolution would you hope for balbyrover? If you're only owed 80 quid or so then that's probably all you'll get.
Quote from: Syme on March 20, 2017, 08:05:20 pmWhat sort of resolution would you hope for balbyrover? If you're only owed 80 quid or so then that's probably all you'll get.I would suggest thats right
You are deluded if you think you'll get any kind of gesture of goodwill from HMRC. You'll get what you are owed and that is that.
Quote from: Jenny on March 20, 2017, 10:44:54 pmYou are deluded if you think you'll get any kind of gesture of goodwill from HMRC. You'll get what you are owed and that is that.I don't think it is deluded. I expect that they probably will try fob me off with a apology. But its up to me whether i try push the matter further. It has inconvenienced me massively and whilst i understand that i may only be owed £84.40 i still want to speak with somebody of authority.I don't think it makes me deluded and i also don't think im being unreasonable.
Quote from: balbyrover on March 21, 2017, 06:30:44 amQuote from: Jenny on March 20, 2017, 10:44:54 pmYou are deluded if you think you'll get any kind of gesture of goodwill from HMRC. You'll get what you are owed and that is that.I don't think it is deluded. I expect that they probably will try fob me off with a apology. But its up to me whether i try push the matter further. It has inconvenienced me massively and whilst i understand that i may only be owed £84.40 i still want to speak with somebody of authority.I don't think it makes me deluded and i also don't think im being unreasonable.You clearly don't understand how HMRC work. They made an error and they've sorted it, prettty much like you had absolutely no clue how tax worked and now feel like your some kind of expert due an apology and an enhanced payment. You are wasting their time, and your time and energy. Youll be better off spending your time educating yourself on the basics of how personal tax works, so that you don't have to rely on an untrained overworked call centre monkey giving you a bit of dud advice and leaving HMRC to spend their time collecting the millions of unpaid tax kicking around.Edit - how has it inconvienced you massively? You paid a tiny bit more than you should which you'll get back? And that isn't even always the fault of HMRC, more on employers and previous employers not issuing documents quick enough.
Quote from: Jenny on March 21, 2017, 08:47:01 amQuote from: balbyrover on March 21, 2017, 06:30:44 amQuote from: Jenny on March 20, 2017, 10:44:54 pmYou are deluded if you think you'll get any kind of gesture of goodwill from HMRC. You'll get what you are owed and that is that.I don't think it is deluded. I expect that they probably will try fob me off with a apology. But its up to me whether i try push the matter further. It has inconvenienced me massively and whilst i understand that i may only be owed £84.40 i still want to speak with somebody of authority.I don't think it makes me deluded and i also don't think im being unreasonable.You clearly don't understand how HMRC work. They made an error and they've sorted it, prettty much like you had absolutely no clue how tax worked and now feel like your some kind of expert due an apology and an enhanced payment. You are wasting their time, and your time and energy. Youll be better off spending your time educating yourself on the basics of how personal tax works, so that you don't have to rely on an untrained overworked call centre monkey giving you a bit of dud advice and leaving HMRC to spend their time collecting the millions of unpaid tax kicking around.Edit - how has it inconvienced you massively? You paid a tiny bit more than you should which you'll get back? And that isn't even always the fault of HMRC, more on employers and previous employers not issuing documents quick enough.Which is why i asked. I had a basic understanding and haven't once said i am a expert. It is basic customer service and i was misadvised which im not happy about. I have not asked for "enhanced payment."I think your reply is quite snotty really.Thanks for the decent posters though who've answered.