Should l have got a P60?

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I received a letter recently saying that l had underpaid tax for the last few years. So I’ve been wanting to review my P60’s to check this. I have been chasing my previous employer for my P60 for April 2019 to March 2020. I left the role in December 2019 and because of this they are saying l didn’t get a P60. Just a P45 but obviously these are different documents?! Should l be able to get a P60 from them?

No. You get p60 from who you are employed at the time. It's April to April and former employer cannot possibly give you your financial information from future.
So whoever you were with in April 2020 is to give you p60.

The P45 you got from your old employer should have enough information about what you earned and what was deducted to work out how much tax you paid in the 2019/20 tax year when added to whatever you earned in the first part of 2020.

Good luck. It's sometimes a nightmare trying to work out how much tax you're supposed to pay when errors occur. I need to check mine because it took my employer 18 months to tell HMRC that I had a company car and tax that I thought was being deducted wasn't. Then I thought I'd caught up but it turns out I hadn't and I want to work out where I am with it.

Yes, the PPs are right. You get a P60 if you are in employment at the end of a tax year, from your current employer. When you leave a job you get a P45 which has all the information about earnings and tax paid from 6 April up to the date of leaving. So that’s the document you need.

However, if you go to a new employer and give them your P45, they should enter the information from it into their payroll software so that you pay the right amount of tax for the rest of the tax year. Then the P60 you receive from the new employer should I believe show income and tax paid in all employments in the Tax year (on separate lines). So if you have a P60 from a new employer relating to the tax year 2019-20 then you should find the information on there.

Thanks for this info, l am now a lot clearer. Last week they were saying it was on the internet pay advice system l could access -it’s not there and this week they said there isn’t one. So l was sceptical about what they were saying. There are a number of reasons l don’t work for this organisation any more -their lack of efficiency is one of them!