Discussion
Don't you love the tax man??
My daughter worked in Australia for 12 months after graduation, and came back to the Uk in August 2005, to a new job in the UK. Since then she has been on emergency tax because she has no proof on income whilst in Australia. The tax ofiice is saying that unless she proves how much she earned they will presume she was earning at the rate she is now (which is around £50,000 a year, whereas in fact in Austrial she was only on £15,000 a year; gap year wage). She paid tax at Oz rates. She has some pay slips (she was paid weekly in Oz) but nowhere near a full years worth.
I have suggested she continues to chase her OZ employer for copy wage slips (they are not really interested) until she can get some professional advice on March 22nd.
In the meantime does anyone know if this is just the tax man being a bit of a bully with her, or will she really have to produce every pay slip or pay the tax man a wedge load of dosh for tax on wages she didn't earn. I felt like suggesting she invoke a complaint to the Ombudsman.
What do you think she should do?
Technically the tax authorities are enpowered to raise assessments for what they think an individual's income is. However, they cannot make stupid assumptions - only reasonable ones. I would automatically appeal ANY assessments they raise without delay and write directly to the District Inspector if the Revenue pursue this line of attack.
If she has incomplete evidence of her income from Australia and is unlikely to receive any more, she can still make a case based on the details she DOES have. If she can show the payslips she currently has in her possession then she can present them as a sample of the earnings level she was at in Australia.
If her Australian employer is unwilling to provide definitive proof of her earnings when she was there, cannot the Austalian tax authorities provide some proof - maybe the Aussie equivalent of a P60?
If she has incomplete evidence of her income from Australia and is unlikely to receive any more, she can still make a case based on the details she DOES have. If she can show the payslips she currently has in her possession then she can present them as a sample of the earnings level she was at in Australia.
If her Australian employer is unwilling to provide definitive proof of her earnings when she was there, cannot the Austalian tax authorities provide some proof - maybe the Aussie equivalent of a P60?
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