Ex employer hasn't paid my tax
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Because you're talking absolute mince? Fine, throw a strop.
The OL would be remitted in all likelihood when the company is dissolved. HMRC are only asking him for information to try and give actual figures to the debt instead of estimations.
Just don't put the fear of god into people when it really isn't necessary.
+1.
I work across the road from an office, they would only deal with me via mail even though I phoned up and waved at the bloke from the office window! I couldn't even drop the forms at reception, how retarded is that!
You can thank a centralising/cutting/process driven Whitehall for that one.
Yes, it has nothing to do with the employee who was none the wiser and very unlikely to be complicit. It has everything do with those who were supposed to be operating an employer's PAYE scheme.
I work for (what's left of) local government. Trust me, I get it.
What did the letter from HMRC actually say?
Everything that has been posted has been based on your final paragraphs stating what you think may have happened. Without knowing what the letter from HMRC said, other than the vague statement "my tax was essentially not paid properly during my time with the company. They're asking for my P60" it's not really possible to determine what is going on.
It's all in the detail with tax, and without that detail no one is going to be anle to do anything other than guess at what might be happening.
Everything that has been posted has been based on your final paragraphs stating what you think may have happened. Without knowing what the letter from HMRC said, other than the vague statement "my tax was essentially not paid properly during my time with the company. They're asking for my P60" it's not really possible to determine what is going on.
It's all in the detail with tax, and without that detail no one is going to be anle to do anything other than guess at what might be happening.
Eh? lol
Why will he be liable for tax. As far as he's aware he's been receiving - and should have been receiving - a wage with his TAX already deducted. Not his fault the guy who's supposed to pay it has been pocketing it (which is why he's on the run, most likely for TAX evasion).
This is what PAYE is all about, big corps and little companies can just work out their due tax in one big lump for all employees... Instead of each employee in the UK having to file their own individual account with HMRC.
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My understanding was he was getting paid gross or at the wrong tax rate. If the OPs net monthly income did not correctly reflect the tax owed then the OP will need to pay the taxes back. If the employer paid the OP the correct net amount but didn't pay hard the IT then the OP shouldn't worry.
i work for one of the biggest employers in the UK (world even) yet last year they managed to balls up every single PAYE employees tax . and as expected its all our fault and we all owe HMRC the cash
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this will come down to your pay slips?
if its a normal looking pay slip with deductions for tax its fair to assume you are not liable,
if you have been paid with no slip or a slip with no deductions its like being paid cash in hand so you will be liable
This is my personal opinion and i admit i know othing...
I hate HMRC with a passion.....
if its a normal looking pay slip with deductions for tax its fair to assume you are not liable,
if you have been paid with no slip or a slip with no deductions its like being paid cash in hand so you will be liable
This is my personal opinion and i admit i know othing...
I hate HMRC with a passion.....
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Send the HMRC your pay slips from the company showing that tax should have been deducted, they will investigate him. If your pay slips have no mention of tax or NI it could be a little trickier.
Your position is potentially problematic. If you had all your payslips all of which displayed deductions for income tax then you would have a degree of evidence that you had satisfied your liability to income tax - HMRC would then likely ignore you and focus on the employer. Since you have only one payslip (what on earth have you done with the remainder?!) then your ability to show that deductions have been made is limited in the extreme. You may have a saving grace if you have been paid the same amount each month throughout your employment. You would then be able to show that the amounts being paid into your account each month tally with the one payslip you have. Tenuous but perhaps sufficient.
Agree with this. If the payslip shows the tax deducted and the net amount as the amount you received into your bank then you should be fine. Otherwise do you have anything from when you started - letter/contract showing what your pay rate would be? You could then prove you haven't received it gross from your bank receipts.
Shifty ignore half the crap in this thread.
They will not pursue you for the tax.
The responsibility to administer, collect and pay PAYE is the responsibility - in law - of your employer. The vast majority of these cases are directors trying to recover the business using your tax contributions as an unauthorised state sponsored loan essentially.
No employer is going to run a payroll system without actually factoring in their taxation obligations. The chances of a company paying people gross when the business is going down the pan is almost unheard of.
(Ex payroll administrator & HMRC officer)
They will not pursue you for the tax.
The responsibility to administer, collect and pay PAYE is the responsibility - in law - of your employer. The vast majority of these cases are directors trying to recover the business using your tax contributions as an unauthorised state sponsored loan essentially.
No employer is going to run a payroll system without actually factoring in their taxation obligations. The chances of a company paying people gross when the business is going down the pan is almost unheard of.
(Ex payroll administrator & HMRC officer)