Tax office chasing me

ethan · 9 Jul 2020 at 19:43

For underpayment made 2016-2017 by my employer. Am I still liable? Furthermore, I've only just received the demand and the employer is no longer trading.

ethan · 9 Jul 2020 at 20:19

jamoor said:
Did they take the money or did they overpay you?

Tax was deducted automatically through SAGE (if you mean the employer). HMRC are saying enough wasn't paid.

ethan · 9 Jul 2020 at 20:30

Pudney said:
Not the best advice I’ve heard today.

He's wrong anyway .
Just found this: https://taxaid.org.uk/guides/taxpayers/tax-for-employees/underpayments-of-paye

The timescales under ESCA19 are particularly relevant given the fact the demand has only just been received.

ethan · 10 Jul 2020 at 17:15

Deluxe1 said:
Same thing happened to two and a half years back, could have paid them back in one go but opted to pay them back over 3 years.

Sick to death of them really. They've done this on me every year since 2016. I think it's about time they did things right.

ethan · 10 Jul 2020 at 23:37

telewebby said:
did you change jobs in this period of time with any type of bonus scheme paid? i did and this caused issues. opted to pay it back over the year through my tax code change

Alex

No. Tax code was also correct. Just the one job throughout. The only change instigated around then (2016) was the introduction of the workplace pension (if I remember correctly?). Obviously I'll contact HMRC- but having to do this over and over again for the last four years -is a bit much.