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Paid 50% Tax, please help.

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ListenLinda · 28/04/2022 02:38

Hi, I really hope someone is awake because I am freaking out!

i changed jobs on 28th March and have received my first payment from my employer today.

I was due about £1850 after tax and NI, but my current wage slip showed by my current TD was £2171, fine, there is a bit if back pay.
tax code is 1257L, as I gave them my P45 from my last job and I assumed that was all okay.

my wage has gone into the bank today and it is seriously seriously short. I checked my wage slip and I have been deducted £1200 in Tax alone.
how can this be right?! Who is at fault? I checked HMRC and they are the figures they have sent to thwm but it can’t be right.

can they get this corrected today? What I have been paid wont cover rent and all my direct debits are going to bounce!

can someone talk me down and help me because I can’t go back to sleep for panicking!

thanks

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BridesmaidPanic · 28/04/2022 14:24

HR and payroll are often different teams, so you do need to speak with payroll.

As you've surmised, it appears that them including your salary from 2021/22 as a 2022/23 Year To Date earnings is what's causing the problem.

What needs to happen:

  • Your employer should give you an advance for the overpaid tax (especially as it's their payroll department's cock up that has caused your shortfall). If you have any fees from bounced DDs or going in to overdraft, they should pay these for you too.
  • Your employer should amend their payroll records to correct their mistake. They may be able to re-submit the April payroll and correct it now, but if it's a large company, they're more likely to just wait until next month.
  • If they don't amend the April payroll, when the next payroll is run, the tax calculations should work themselves back out and HMRC will then refund the tax, via your payslip (not directly to you). In this case you'd have a negative tax line on your payslip. Your employer then deducts the advance they've given you off of your May payslip and you're back to where you should have been.
You calling HMRC is not going to do much good, as you have no authority to change your employer's payroll report.
TheDoveFromAboveCooCoo · 28/04/2022 14:26

Your manager and HR need to be contacting payroll on your behalf if you can't be given their contact details.

As an aside this SERIOUSLY pisses me off about some companies!!! Hiding payroll behind some invisible curtain, non contactable and nobody knows who they are!! I'm here working on a huge project to make us visible and accessible! Employees know they can call my work mobile if they have an issue! Some companies are so bloody backwards.

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ListenLinda · 28/04/2022 14:27

HR haven’t given me the contact details and I can’t find them anywhere.

i’ll ask my manager if she has them.

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ListenLinda · 28/04/2022 14:29

@TheDoveFromAboveCooCoo this is one of the largest companys in the industry too, perplexing really.

i honestly believe they don’t know how to fix it.

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TheDoveFromAboveCooCoo · 28/04/2022 14:37

Come work for me @ListenLinda 😂😂 I'm a lovely payroll person ❤️

teaandtoastwithmarmite · 28/04/2022 14:39

We had this but I had been working here a while. Payroll had made a mistake and we got it back the month after. I get the panic.

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ListenLinda · 28/04/2022 14:42

@teaandtoastwithmarmite it’s awful isn’t it.

unfortunately, i’m not in the posistion to wait a month when I waited 5 weeks for my first months salary too.

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teaandtoastwithmarmite · 28/04/2022 15:00

Yes it's awful. Luckily I have DH's salary but we were 'skint' for a month. Payroll also told me to get on to HMRC but once a few people said that it had happened to them they realised it was their fault

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ListenLinda · 28/04/2022 15:07

Well the plot thickens…. It appears I am not the only one affected.

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teaandtoastwithmarmite · 28/04/2022 15:29

@ListenLinda 😯

BridesmaidPanic · 28/04/2022 15:33

In some ways this may go in your favour - if you're not the only one, there'll be even more pressure to fix it!

Someone in the payroll department (which may be outsourced) has really made a big cock up!

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ListenLinda · 28/04/2022 15:49

I’m getting slightly irritated now. ‘It’s on my radar to fix asap’

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ListenLinda · 28/04/2022 15:50

ListenLinda · 28/04/2022 15:49

I’m getting slightly irritated now. ‘It’s on my radar to fix asap’

Sorry, pressed enter too soon.
but they also said that this morning. It’s getting too long in the day to expect a payment into my account before COB isn’t it 😑

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NoSquirrels · 28/04/2022 16:06

Assume you won’t get it today, contact your bank for a temporary overdraft and contact your landlord ASAP and explain.

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ListenLinda · 28/04/2022 16:22

I have done contacted my landlord, thankfully she is lovely.

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ListenLinda · 29/04/2022 11:22

Still no payment, no guarantee a payment will be made before the weekend and a bloody bank holiday weekend so less.

payroll have agreed with what they have advised, and that they will work out what I should have been paid and they have said they can sort it for next month if I want. They have been told no.

The HR director who would sign off on payments doesn’t work Fridays, but there must be someone else?

so the HR manager and finance are having a call shortly to see what they can do when they get the figures.

i’m getting seriously annoyed now and currently refraining from sending an email but I know that won’t do me any good.

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Worldgonecrazy · 29/04/2022 12:18

Make sure that you tell work about any overdraft charges you may be subject to. Overdrafts are not cheap anymore, even pre arranged ones.

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