Tax Office Blues

January 5, 2005

This morning I phoned my tax office to tell them that I no longer have a company car and to get my tax code changed. I’m currently paying 120GBP tax on a benefit I don’t have. It turns out they didn’t know I was working for my last company. They never submitted the P45 I gave them, telling the tax office I had started working for them in late April. They never submitted a P11D tellling the tax office I had a company car and they never submitted a P46 telling them I left in mid November.

This leaves me wondering if the company never told the tax office I was working for them, did they actually pay my tax or National Insurance? Did they pay my student loan? If not, what happened to the money and what will happen to me in April when the tax office sorts the end of year stuff out?

Oh and does anyone know where I can find the CO2 emissions on a Vauxhall Vectra LS?

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Rob Kendrick — January 5, 2005

If your payslips subtract taxes from your pay, then I think you can whinge loudly at your ex-employer to cough up, as they clearly still have the cash. If they don't, you should have noticed earlier :)

You can normally find the CO2 emissions from the exhaust pipe. :)

Gareth Bowker — January 5, 2005

I hope you kept your payslips! If so, and they show the deductions, you're fine, as it's then their responsibility legally. That said, I don't know how they'd know how much to deduct without a tax code from the Inland Revenue. Talk to the IR.

The CO2 emissions (that matter as far as road tax etc are concerned with) differ depending on the engine size and whether it's petrol or diesel. http://www.honestjohn.co.uk/news/?news_id=623 has a few of the emissions listed.

sdf — January 5, 2005

if your government already ratified the eu directive about car-advertisement regarding co2 / fuel consumption, you can ask your dealer, or get a free brochure listing the co2/fuel data for all cars of the dealer's brand. for germany, you can download this brochure from http://dat.de/leitfaden/LeitfadenCO2Aus2004.pdf .

Jon Masters — January 7, 2005

Apparently the ex-employer should be fully liable for paying those contributions - but Gareth has a point here; You might well need to prove that they actually claimed to have been making deductions.

Finally, note also that they are supposed to inform the tax office with some reasonable expedience but I do not think they are necessarily forced to do so until end of year tax filings. So they might decide to clean up the situation and pay off monies that they have claimed already.

I am not a lawyer obviously.

Jon.