We have 2 Employees within our Company that their tax codes have gone down, i am concerned this could be my error.
When speaking to HMRC i explained that when doing my online filing that on these 2 particular Employees it seems to have defaulted to the wrong tax year 2010/2011 and should of been 2011/2012. Is there anyway i can amend this online, even though it would be late?
When speaking to HMRC they said that 1 particular Employee they had been given their personal allowance twice in the year 2010/2011, so i am assuming it might have something to do with my online filing, as half way through 2010/2011 this particular Employee was made redundant in that year.
I am very confused and not very good at explaining myself, can anyone shed any light? As last year she was on the normal 810L tax code.
Hi Keano, I don't know much about the online filing system but is anyone in a position to suggest the to the employee that he/she checks her coding notice to see what has/hasn't been adjusted? I am assuming you can work out what the adjustment is and you're confident it isn't as a result of a recently notified change to benefits in kind?
Unfortunately, my understanding (I don't do payroll calcs) is that it is the employee's responsibility to ensure the tax coding is correct, and that any adjustments made by HMRC are accurate. Tax codes are private and there could be situations where a coding is adjusted for a private matter that they are under no obligation to tell you about!
Unfortunately unless anyone has IT tech guidance on this one, then the best you can do is coerce the colleague into checking their details (which they should be doing anyway) - I am assuming if their coding has gone down for no reason and they are paying more tax, they would be battering the doors down with HMRC (and potentially you) by now!?
Exactly so. The employee gets a letter before you get the P6 from HMRC. That letter explains their coding to them. It is their responsibility to check the reasoning and to get in touch with HMRC if the new code is wrong. You just get notification of the code on the P6, because the reasoning behind it is none of the payroll processor's business.
Hi Keano, just trying to discover what might have happened.
We have 2 Employees within our Company that their tax codes have gone down, i am concerned this could be my error.
Are you still using Sage 50v2011? Maybe someone can imagine if it is possible to accidently switch tax years for Returns which have already been filed.
When speaking to HMRC i explained that when doing my online filing that on these 2 particular Employees it seems to have defaulted to the wrong tax year 2010/2011 and should of been 2011/2012. Is there anyway i can amend this online, even though it would be late?
If you had indeed filed P14's twice and told them (last May 2102 ?), then I'd hope HMRC would have amended their records before now.
When speaking to HMRC they said that 1 particular Employee they had been given their personal allowance twice in the year 2010/2011, so i am assuming it might have something to do with my online filing, as half way through 2010/2011 this particular Employee was made redundant in that year.
Is this employee 1 of the 2 you first mentioned? As this one is long gone, it seems surprising that you could have filed twice unless they re-joined the firm after redundancy. Also, HMRC shouldn't issue a code notice for someone who had left.
