I got £14 back this year, First time in ages. Im assuming it’s because I changed jobs in the middle of the tax year.
I remember when I was 19 I got a tax rebate. Working behind a bar in the local pub. I can’t remember why but I was on emergency tax or something. So when they figured out I was paying too much they gave me a rebate of 500 quid. Did I spend it wisely? Fuck no, I was 19. Bought a Reading Festival weekend ticket and spent the rest of beer!
One year they overcharged me so much I didn’t have to pay anything the following year.
and how shall you be spending your new found small fortune?
Had this once, had to call them to make sure this was genuine. Money back from the HMRC, also getting a refund from overpayment of council tax.
I got over £900 back! First time ever. Came at the perfect time as I had over £1k of unexpected costs around the same time.
I’ve been though a redundancy and then a new job and then a TUPE so far this year, my tax is all over the fucking place.
As a result, even though I’m PAYE and this should not be my problem, I’ve underpaid tax last year, so my code was updated this year to claw it back. But the TUPE reset all that so this month I paid about -£50 in tax.
Which was a nice payslip but I know it’s wrong 🤦♂️
Did you have to ask them or did they do it automatically?
In 28 years ive never had one of these 😭
I got 900 back this year!
Then a bill for 600!
And a new tax code that fucked me!
Thanks, HMRC, I’m doing my part!
After nearly three years, I think I’m finally getting used to HMRC’s change of name.
The only brown letter I’m happy to get. Got mine a couple of months back. Now they’re all scary.
Where does one find this information?
Got £700 back from the taxman myself a few weeks ago, and I didn’t even spend all of it on drugs.
I got told they owe me £94 today. It’s not a lot, but it still made my day.
I somehow overpaid my student loans by 45 quid and I’ve still got the form I need to fill in on my desk. Dunno how it even happened TBH.
Better to owe them money (if theres no/little interest) as otherwise you’ve given them an interest free loan for a year
I had a rebate of about £1000 back when I started my first “real” job post-university. I think I was still on the payroll for a part-time summer job I’d done years previously, so I was on some kind of emergency tax code. And I didn’t even realise anything was wrong, because I didn’t know what my tax code *should* have been, it was all new to me. So by the time I noticed anything was wrong, and contacted HMRC to fix it, it had built up to quite a lot money they owed me.
Don’t hold your breath while you wait. I applied for a refund about 6 weeks ago and have been told today that they’re only just getting round to processing refund applications submitted in May. Gobshites.
It’s a shame that decimal point isn’t moved to the right a couple of places.
The first time i got a rebate i had been on the wrong tax code for close to two years, it was a nice amount, which hmrc tried to claw back a week later, but i had gone mad and spent it all by the time they contacted me.
I queried why the numbers were different and this kicked off a couple of months of back and forth where i was sent batches of account print outs every couple of weeks, that didn’t match each other with different results.
Each time i’d send them details of what they’d fucked up (excluded a year, excluded all income from a particular job, etc).
Wound up collating and compiling all the stuff they sent out, reconciling my own tax accounts for them and asking them to just confirm the end result, which was the same as the first notification of the first rebate amount.
Instead they sent me another rebate for £300.
Which i immediately spent.
Intaxication (noun): The feeling of euphoria upon receiving a tax refund that lasts until you remember that it was your own money in the first place.
I’m still waiting for my tax refund for 2024/25 because my stupid work doesn’t do salary sacrifice.
They’re taking their sweet time.
Hooray! I recently got them to admit they charged me customs on an incoming parcel that shouldn’t have had any charged, but of course after having to post it to them, and Royal Mail refusing to waive their fee due to the fact they had provided a “service” it was more of a moral victory than a financial one.
I got a £600 cheque a few weeks back.
A couple of years ago I got £530 something back off them, paid off a few bills and my credit card.
Then the next year I got a letter saying I owed them, checked the amount I got from them and it was the exact same amount.
Only in this order though
I got £200 as well!
Haha I got the same notification this morning for around the same amount. Good day
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I got £14 back this year, First time in ages. Im assuming it’s because I changed jobs in the middle of the tax year.
I remember when I was 19 I got a tax rebate. Working behind a bar in the local pub. I can’t remember why but I was on emergency tax or something. So when they figured out I was paying too much they gave me a rebate of 500 quid. Did I spend it wisely? Fuck no, I was 19. Bought a Reading Festival weekend ticket and spent the rest of beer!
One year they overcharged me so much I didn’t have to pay anything the following year.
and how shall you be spending your new found small fortune?
Had this once, had to call them to make sure this was genuine. Money back from the HMRC, also getting a refund from overpayment of council tax.
I got over £900 back! First time ever. Came at the perfect time as I had over £1k of unexpected costs around the same time.
I’ve been though a redundancy and then a new job and then a TUPE so far this year, my tax is all over the fucking place.
As a result, even though I’m PAYE and this should not be my problem, I’ve underpaid tax last year, so my code was updated this year to claw it back. But the TUPE reset all that so this month I paid about -£50 in tax.
Which was a nice payslip but I know it’s wrong 🤦♂️
Did you have to ask them or did they do it automatically?
In 28 years ive never had one of these 😭
I got 900 back this year!
Then a bill for 600!
And a new tax code that fucked me!
Thanks, HMRC, I’m doing my part!
After nearly three years, I think I’m finally getting used to HMRC’s change of name.
The only brown letter I’m happy to get. Got mine a couple of months back. Now they’re all scary.
Where does one find this information?
Got £700 back from the taxman myself a few weeks ago, and I didn’t even spend all of it on drugs.
I got told they owe me £94 today. It’s not a lot, but it still made my day.
I somehow overpaid my student loans by 45 quid and I’ve still got the form I need to fill in on my desk. Dunno how it even happened TBH.
Better to owe them money (if theres no/little interest) as otherwise you’ve given them an interest free loan for a year
I had a rebate of about £1000 back when I started my first “real” job post-university. I think I was still on the payroll for a part-time summer job I’d done years previously, so I was on some kind of emergency tax code. And I didn’t even realise anything was wrong, because I didn’t know what my tax code *should* have been, it was all new to me. So by the time I noticed anything was wrong, and contacted HMRC to fix it, it had built up to quite a lot money they owed me.
Don’t hold your breath while you wait. I applied for a refund about 6 weeks ago and have been told today that they’re only just getting round to processing refund applications submitted in May. Gobshites.
It’s a shame that decimal point isn’t moved to the right a couple of places.
The first time i got a rebate i had been on the wrong tax code for close to two years, it was a nice amount, which hmrc tried to claw back a week later, but i had gone mad and spent it all by the time they contacted me.
I queried why the numbers were different and this kicked off a couple of months of back and forth where i was sent batches of account print outs every couple of weeks, that didn’t match each other with different results.
Each time i’d send them details of what they’d fucked up (excluded a year, excluded all income from a particular job, etc).
Wound up collating and compiling all the stuff they sent out, reconciling my own tax accounts for them and asking them to just confirm the end result, which was the same as the first notification of the first rebate amount.
Instead they sent me another rebate for £300.
Which i immediately spent.
Intaxication (noun): The feeling of euphoria upon receiving a tax refund that lasts until you remember that it was your own money in the first place.
I’m still waiting for my tax refund for 2024/25 because my stupid work doesn’t do salary sacrifice.
They’re taking their sweet time.
Hooray! I recently got them to admit they charged me customs on an incoming parcel that shouldn’t have had any charged, but of course after having to post it to them, and Royal Mail refusing to waive their fee due to the fact they had provided a “service” it was more of a moral victory than a financial one.
I got a £600 cheque a few weeks back.
A couple of years ago I got £530 something back off them, paid off a few bills and my credit card.
Then the next year I got a letter saying I owed them, checked the amount I got from them and it was the exact same amount.
Only in this order though
I got £200 as well!
Haha I got the same notification this morning for around the same amount. Good day
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