Tax relief on employee expenses?

[BS30]

Hi guys

Looking for a bit of help please.

I submitted some P87 forms to claim for expenses I'd paid, a couple of professional subscriptions totalling £200 (the body was on the hmrc approved list) and 2000 business miles which were paid at 43p and not 45p

So I was expecting a refund of about £40 re the subs and about the same for the miles.

No communication whatsoever from hmrc but random £23 credited to my bank account. Can I expect any communication about how this was calculated? It looks very low to me unless I'm misinterpreting the rules! Basic rate taxpayer by the way.

Thanks

[PurpleMoonlight]

HMRC don't give you the 2p mileage shortfall, they give you tax relief on the 2p. So you will get £8.00 if a basic rate tax payer.

[BS30]

PurpleMoonlight said:

HMRC don't give you the 2p mileage shortfall, they give you tax relief on the 2p. So you will get £8.00 if a basic rate tax payer.

That was my first thought, but even then I thought they gave you 20% of the prof subs as effectively your taxable pay should have reduced by the cost of the subs?

So £200 subs should have reduced my taxable pay by £200, so £40 overpaid tax? Then mileage on top?

Can't get my head around where £23 came from based on the above.

Not worried either way over a few quid just want to understand it. You'd think they'd send you some kind of remittance advice!

[JonV8V]

If you filed on line you can log in and see what they've done. It may be you've under paid elsewhere.

[sumo69]

JonV8V said:

It may be you've under paid elsewhere.

Sounds like the likely culprit - your refund based on your figures and assuming you are a basic-rate taxpayer is £48.