P800 overpayment letter from Inland Revenue

[Poppiesway]

I've just recieved a letter from inland revenue which states I have underpaid tax for 2013-14 and 2014-15. It's just over £760 which to me is a lot.

I work full time for the NHS who obviously pay me and do all the calculations. I've worked for th NHS for many many years and have never had this before.

Inland revenue have said they will take it out of my wages next tax year, but it does say on letter that if my employer has made a mistake or not taken reasonable care I can try to make them pay the overpayment.

I have always trusted that the pay office have calculated my salary correctly. I would have no idea on how to work out my tax, NI pension and student loan. Ive tried to ring inland revenue this morning but the waiting time is over 40 minutes on hold. (Ds2 is circling the kitchen waiting to go out so I can't stay on hold today.. Will have to wait till school next week!)

Does anyone have experience of this? Does this happen frequently that a big organisation calculates wages incorrectly?
I'm now wondering what else they've been calculating wrong!!

www.uktaxcalculators.co.uk

Try here.

Oh works for multinational company and they are shite. Pay cocked up for years
Sorry, not much help.x

Don't panic. DH had one of these to the tune of 3k. he didn't owe it- it was an error by a previous employer. Write to them and also try and ring. They reply in writing fairly promptly and the letter should have the right phone number on it.

In my experience the Inland Revenue often make errors and cock ups and are far from perfect but if you speak to them on the phone they will look into things and are pretty helpful.

Take their name though when you have spoken to someone. I always think they are more likely to update your notes on screen if you know their name. We've had some issues in the past where you talk to someone and their colleague a few weeks later has no record of any discussion or update.

Did they say why? Is it a tax coding issue. You need to check your p60 figures against what they have quoted as your earnings to make sure they are correct.
I just helped someone who had a similar letter and the tax office had sent it to the wrong person of the same surname from the same company. Took a while to untangle but resulted in an actual refund rather than underpayment.

thankyou,
A colleague has also got one today also. We think it may be to do with the salary sacrifice car we both have and they've calculated it wrong with that?? We hope. Both of us have had tax calculated wrong for two years. Thankfully I'm almost at the end of my term for the car and the NHS aren't renewing the salary sacrifice scheme apparently..