Would you be impressed

[MuffDaddy]

to receive this email from your employer:

On checking our payroll records I have found that your earnings are being taxed at the basic rate – 20%.

This may or may not be the correct tax code for you – it is your responsibility to ensure that your tax code is correct and therefore I urge you to contact HMRC to confirm that the correct tax code is being operated.

[TheEnd]

Probably a bit indifferent, although i would have though it would be written on the pay slip

[Original Poster]

How much do you earn if you don't mind me asking?

This could potentially be a very, very bad day for you.

[drivin_me_nuts]

perhaps not impressed. But bearing in mind that if it's wrong you have to pay, perhaps you would be less impressed with a £1500 tax bill outadablue

[SystemParanoia]

or he's gonna get reallly big cheque sometime soon!


( glass half full )

[MuffDaddy]

Payslip, I never open them.

I earn just enough to mean the resulting tax bill may require the sale of a TVR. Anyone want a TVR, just the right time to be selling.

[SystemParanoia]

[Original Poster]

MuffDaddy said:

Payslip, I never open them.

I earn just enough to mean the resulting tax bill may require the sale of a TVR. Anyone want a TVR, just the right time to be selling.

Sounds like you're buggered!

[MuffDaddy]

I've worked here 18 months, so at worst it's not going to go past 10k. I think it may be karma for 15 years freelance work.

[SystemParanoia]

http://www.deedpoll.org.uk/

[MuffDaddy]

Change my name, interesting.

Shall I let you lot decide?

I'll offer Montgomery Charles Frederick Cornilius Farqhaur III

[Famous Graham]

Presumably you know your salary.

And thus what bracket your in.

Did the amount going into your bank account not raise an eyebrow?

[cronk-flakes]

Famous Graham said:

Presumably you know your salary.

And thus what bracket your in.

Did the amount going into your bank account not raise an eyebrow?

I fear he may have been getting so much that money no longer mattered

[Grey Ghost]

MuffDaddy said:

it is your responsibility to ensure that your tax code is correct

This is true. However, it is the responsibility of your employer to pay the correct amount of PAYE on your behalf based on your annual earnings.

[SystemParanoia]

cronk-flakes said:

Famous Graham said:

Presumably you know your salary.

And thus what bracket your in.

Did the amount going into your bank account not raise an eyebrow?

I fear he may have been getting so much that money no longer mattered

MuffDaddy and the Mrs earlier today

[cronk-flakes]

SystemParanoia said:

cronk-flakes said:

Famous Graham said:

Presumably you know your salary.

And thus what bracket your in.

Did the amount going into your bank account not raise an eyebrow?

I fear he may have been getting so much that money no longer mattered

MuffDaddy and the Mrs earlier today

[AdeTuono]

Grey Ghost said:

MuffDaddy said:

it is your responsibility to ensure that your tax code is correct

This is true. However, it is the responsibility of your employer to pay the correct amount of PAYE on your behalf based on your annual earnings.

Which they can only do if given the correct tax code.

[Eviltad]

My sister (a teacher) found out about six months ago that she was only on basic rate of tax and had been for 5 years. Hence she had been paying too much tax. My brother, an accountant, pointed out that this error, on the part of the county council, should have been spotted during an audit of payroll and was shocked that it had gone on for so long.

So she ended up paying LESS tax.

Would this not necessarily be the case for the OP?

[Four Cofffee]

Listening to the radio yesterday, is it that they are covering their backs? What was said was that if you have queried your tax and the employer hasn't corrected it, they could carry the liability for any underpaid tax.


Are they just arse covering by sending out a blanket email?

[paulmurr]

SystemParanoia said:

Isn't that Dave200?

Well, it's the myth he perpetuates anyway...