Every employee pays tax according to the amount he/she earns in a personal tax year. The employer deducts the tax from the employee's gross pay and then pays it across to HMRC. If your employer has deducted too much tax in a personal tax year from
your Gross pay then you need to submit a tax repayment claim form to HMRC to claim the amount of overpaid tax back.
For a number of reasons. Tax gets deducted on the assumption that you'll be employed for the entire duration of the tax year.
(A tax year in the UK starts on the 6th of April and ends on the 5th of April the following year.)
If you are not employed for the duration of the tax year, chances are you overpaid tax. It's also possible that you had the wrong tax code, or that your employer deducted emergency tax.
You can make a claim after the personal tax year has ended (05 April) or
you can claim for the current tax year if you have stopped working and you will not
be working for a UK company again before the end of the current tax year (6th of April).
If you've overpaid tax you can claim it before the 31 January, five years after the end of the tax year (5 April) in which the overpayment was made. For example, a claim for the tax year 2004-05 (which ended 5 April 2005) must be made by 31 January 2011.
No, you can only claim overpaid tax back. If you only worked in the UK for part of the tax year (6th of April to the 5th of April the following year)you've probably overpaid tax. In this case you'll be able to claim the overpaid tax back.
This varies from situation to situation. It all depends how much you earned in a tax year and how much PAYE tax you paid. Tax works on a sliding scale, the more you earn the more tax you pay.
The easiest way to calculate your refund amount is to create a free account with us and enter your employment information. Our calculator will tell you how much you're getting back. (And it's free, you only pay us if you decide to go ahead with the tax claim.)
No, you can claim from anywhere in the world. was developed to assist you whether you're in the UK or not.
The calculator will calculate your refund amount before you have to pay for using our service. If you're not due a tax refund you can use our website for free, you won't have to pay us anything. In fact, it won't even be possible for you to pay us.
If however you are due a refund (calculation based on the information you provided) you will have to pay our standard fee of . This fee is non-refundable.