Tax advice

[K77 CTR]

I have been seconded to a new role for 6 months. Prior to this I was working 37.5 hours per week. The new role is 24 hours per week and I therefore am doing 13.5 hours in my previous role. The previous role is classed as my main role and this is the one my tax code is applied to. My higher paying role is seen as my second job and I have the following tax code D0 Noncum.

I have also had my personal tax allowance lowered on the lower earning role as its only 13.5 hours per week. As the secondment is only for 6 months I cant have the jobs switched over to reflect the higher earning one as my main job.

Is there anyway to sort the tax out or do I have to wait for the end of the 6 months? It wasn't too bad until this month where I am £700 worse off than I would be if I hadn't taken the secondment. Working in the NHS I can't afford to be that badly off every month. I'm aware that after the 6 months it should sort itself out and likely will end up with a rebate but any helpful suggestions would be welcomed. Thanks

[sawman]

Presumably you have spoken to payroll?

Is the 2nd job with the same trust? If so are they giving you 2 payslips- sounds a bit weird.

Would have thought they can put both roles on one payslip if its the same trust.
You should speak to hmrc, they can attribute you main tax allowance from whichever income stream you wish. If you can stand being on hold for ages they are usually very helpful when you get to speak to them

Caveat: not a tax expert but do have 2 nhs roles in different trusts…

[jrb43]

Payroll
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Within the same trust, you absolutely should have one assignment number and one payslip. Don't expect pay services to communicate in any helpful way with HMRC unless you're working in a very different NHS trust from the 10 or so of which I have experience.

[Countdown]

Re: one assignment / one payslip it depends on how the payroll system has been set up. I've worked on several Finance system implementations and it's surprising how some IT Consultants fail to understand how the system is meant to operate.

OP - I'm guessing your payroll Dept may have already considered this but if you speak to them you could perhaps ask if they have an additional "Basic Pay" element that they could use. i.e.

Basic Pay 1 £2,000.00
Basic Pay 2 £1,500.00

Having multiple Basic pay elements set up within the payroll system allows different roles to be paid at different rates but processed within one single payroll record.

[Flooble]

Yes, what Countdown said.

There should be no reason (unless they use Oracle) that they can't have you holding multiple appointments and even contracts all under the same overarching employment. One implementation I did had one person with 11 different contracts for the one place. One of which was a whole hour once a fortnight. Still all got paid on a single payslip with no tax confusion as a result.

If the Payroll team can't (or won't) help then I'd take it up with the Union (assuming you have one). You shouldn't be out of pocket.