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AIBU?

to wonder who the bloody hell keeps P60s for donkey's years?

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Seepage · 03/09/2011 16:17

Because I don't.

And what the bloody hell am I supposed to do now?

Fucking unreasonable bloody bastard Tax office dickheads.

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cwtch4967 · 03/09/2011 16:19

Well you should - it's an important document and almost impossible to get replacements.

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purpleknittingmum · 03/09/2011 16:19

I never used to until someone told me it would be a good idea too, I guess I have about 8 or 9 kept now, plus a boat load of payslips, need to get rid of some of them at some point

What is it you need it for?

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LovelyCuppa · 03/09/2011 16:20

I do. But no idea where they are. I lose dh's too.

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nickelbabe · 03/09/2011 16:20

me!
i do!

You have to keep them for FIVE years anyway, so what difference does it make keeping hold of them longer than that?

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Seepage · 03/09/2011 16:22

where are you supposed to keep all this crap? There are boxes of bank statements and pay slips and bills and stuff. I haven't room for it all.

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SpaghettiTwirlerAndProud · 03/09/2011 16:22

My FIL has kept every single, bank statement, payslip and P60 since he started his job. He's 52 in october, he started his job aged 16.

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WhereYouLeftIt · 03/09/2011 16:22

I have every P60 from when I started working 30+ years ago. Filed.

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Seepage · 03/09/2011 16:23

and if I cna't find the bugger what do i bloody do?

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SpaghettiTwirlerAndProud · 03/09/2011 16:23

And I would keep my P60's if my work had even bothered to send them out this year

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Seepage · 03/09/2011 16:24

Is that not a fire hazzard Spaghetti?

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Hassled · 03/09/2011 16:25

I have every P60 I've ever had. I have a special fondness for the ones I've issued to myself. I don't know where they are, but I know I have them.

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SpaghettiTwirlerAndProud · 03/09/2011 16:26

Probably is really. But FIL literally never throws things away. Even broken useless things.

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purpleknittingmum · 03/09/2011 16:27

P45's are important to keep too, my OH a few years ago made a claim for a benefit, and was told he couldn't get it due to not enough contributions. He knew this was wrong. We found a P45 from a previous job, and it turned out it had the wrong national insurance number on it, 2 numbers the wrong way round, so all they had to do was look it up on the system, and put it into his 'account'

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Takeresponsibility · 03/09/2011 16:28

Me. It says on them to keep them because you will need them and cannot get replacements.

YABU not the tax office workers who have to take abuse from people who can't follow a simple instruction.

You state you have your pay slips, look at the March and April one for each of the relevant tax years and you should be able to work out what you need from those. Send copies of said payslips with a polite covering note to the tax office as evidence of whatever you are trying to prove.

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cantpooinpeace · 03/09/2011 16:30

Apparently April's wage slip will have the info they need. Just had to deal them myself they wanted p60s. When I rang my wages dept they said use April's slip - so I did & it was sorted surprisingly quickly :)

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FerretMum · 03/09/2011 16:30

I'd keep them at least six years as I seem to remember that is how far back you can claim for a rebate...,

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Seepage · 03/09/2011 16:31

Is it not their job to keep track though? Is that not part of what I pay tax for?

I Simply refuse to believe that I am unreasonable to not be able to find it.

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Seepage · 03/09/2011 16:32

It is bloody April 2009 that I can't bloody find.

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Iggly · 03/09/2011 16:36

You only get one a year

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Seepage · 03/09/2011 16:41

i can't remember where, when or what I did last week let alone 2 years ago.

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nickelbabe · 03/09/2011 16:43

every year when it arrives, you should file it in a TAX BOX
then you'll never lose it.

what do yo udo with important paperwork that you lose it so easily?

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Pinot · 03/09/2011 16:45

It's only a tiny bit of paper. Once a year.

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Seepage · 03/09/2011 16:46

probably filed in in a heap in the kitchen (bfore a monthly sort through) which consequently got eaten by a cat or coffee spilled on it or burned in a fit of pyromania.

seriously - what the bloody hell do i do now?

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caughtinanet · 03/09/2011 16:47

Are you joking? Why can't you find room for one piece of paper per year? Even if you have 3 jobs we're hardly talking about a mountain of paperwork

You don't have to keep the individual payslips once you have the P60 as it summarises the year's info.

But hey ho, unreasonable old Inland Revenue expecting people to take responsibility for their own life.

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Meglet · 03/09/2011 16:49

I've probably lost a couple of mine. But all the rest are filed away.

I know one of my old guinea pigs chewed the edges of a couple of them when I was younger.