Tax Over Payment

[Gazza01]

Hiya All

 

A bit unsure of my ground n this subject [rubbish at maths!!!].

 

I was working for am employer for a number of years and during that period I was on emergency tax.

 

I became aware of this overpayment and the problem was sorted, eventually. Don't you just love HR which offers only advice but no help in sorting out these problems even though it was their duty at the time to do just that!

 

Anyway, I got a refund. Then last year I got a letter from HMRC stating that the original figure [i received a rebate for almost half the overpaid amount] had in the time since the overpayment started actually year by year had reduced in size. No explanation showing how this occured was given.

 

I am a bit confused at this, as year by year for this period I was on emergency tax and the actual tax code was bumped upwards year by year. If the tax code indicated a contracting amount I would not be puzzled.

 

Am I correct in thinking I need to go back to HMRC, pointing this out to them and asking for an explanation as not refunding the other half makes no sense?

 

To make things easy I totaled up the extra tax paid per year and took off the refund that was made.

 

Kind Regards

[Gbarbm]

Hi

When you say "letter from HMRC" was it a form P800 with a calculation on it?