How the hell do I sort out my tax help

[adizem]

I am working 3 different jobs and its like this.
One job I work 1 nightshift a week, another job I work one shift a week and an alternate Saturday so that one is about 54 hours a month.
I also work another job which is bank work as and when needed so the hours on that one are never the same so therfore my wage is always different.
Now to also complicate matters it is three different tax offices.
This June I recieved a tax refund as I had paid too much tax.
Now for some reason the last 3 months or so I have not paid any tax at all.
I am very confused on how I sort this out and am very concerned that if this goes on I will end up with a massive tax bill.
So what do I do I mean which job do I pay the tax on and which tax office should deal with it

First thing to do is to check your payslips for each job to see what tax code each of your employers is using.

For 2010-11, your total tax should be:

0% on anything up to £6,475
20% on next £37,400

If you will earn more than £6,475 in any one of your jobs, then you should have a tax code of "647L" in that job, and "BR" (which stands for basic rate) in the other 2 jobs. Then over the full year you should end up paying the right amount of tax.

But if you won't earn more than £6,475 in any one job then you'll end up paying too much tax doing it like this. Then you have to ask the tax office to split your tax code between your different jobs.

You're allowed to earn about £540 a month without paying any tax so if you've been earning less than that it would explain why they haven't taken any tax off for the last 3 months.

Sorry to be a bit vague but it's hard to be specific without knowing all the details....

Maybe this will be helpful?

www.hmrc.gov.uk/incometax/check-multiple-codes.htm

Dealing with even one tax office can be quite tricky, esp at the moment I think you would be lucky to get through on the phone so good luck! I'll check back, if you post more details then I'll try to help more.

hope that helps

What RJandA said.

About the three tax offices - that shouldn't make a difference anymore as they all now share the same computer system and each office has full access to all your records. I'd just pick one office and deal with them, unless they tell you differently.

adizem would it help if you have a spreadsheet to check your year to date tax position across all jobs?

I'd be happy to help. CAT me.