Tax Problem

whitelightrider

Folks,

My other half just started teaching in the past year. She finished in one school in May and started with another in September. She sent her P45 to the Dept of Education which are her employers at the moment. She's still on emergency tax though and when she called them this week they told her that they need her Tax Cert. Does she get this from the Tax Office here in Galway?

Kimbot

The procedure is give your P45 to your employer or else send it to the tax office yourself. The Tax Cert is what she gets from Revenue saying how many tax credits she has so ring the lo-call number for revenue in your area and ask them if they received the p45. If the didn't then chase the employer up about it!!

whitelightrider

jonny24ie wrote:

The procedure is give your P45 to your employer or else send it to the tax office yourself. The Tax Cert is what she gets from Revenue saying how many tax credits she has so ring the lo-call number for revenue in your area and ask them if they received the p45. If the didn't then chase the employer up about it!!

It seems strange that they are asking her for a tax cert when she already sent them in her P45 in September.

Champ

She's still on emergency tax though and when she called them this week they told her that they need her Tax Cert.

Okay one of two possibilities unless you can be more specific:
(A) They're waiting on revenue to send in her tax credits.
(B) Her employers messed up.

This is what normally happens for me when changing jobs:
(1) Get P45 from old employer.
(2) Give P45 to new employer. New employer processes P45 and sends off for tax credits which revenue sends a copy to both the new employer and you. I infact read up somewhere on the revenue site that this is what the employer should do by default.. its just errr... not strict i think as it uses 'should'?;)

Equivalentally if she has to take the iniative (like i had to before), simply call up revenue with her prsi number and her employer details.. some registered employer number or something can't recall the exact name etc.. and ask for a copy of her tax credits to be sent to the employer and herself and she should have it within a week.:)

whitelightrider

Champ wrote:

Okay one of two possibilities unless you can be more specific:
(A) They're waiting on revenue to send in her tax credits.
(B) Her employers messed up.

This is what normally happens for me when changing jobs:
(1) Get P45 from old employer.
(2) Give P45 to new employer. New employer processes P45 and sends off for tax credits which revenue sends a copy to both the new employer and you. I infact read up somewhere on the revenue site that this is what the employer should do by default.. its just errr... not strict i think as it uses 'should'?;)

Equivalentally if she has to take the iniative (like i had to before), simply call up revenue with her prsi number and her employer details.. some registered employer number or something can't recall the exact name etc.. and ask for a copy of her tax credits to be sent to the employer and herself and she should have it within a week.:)

Excellent. Cheers for that champ. I think thats what she needs to do. I have her PPS number so I'll call her now and get her employers number and call revenue for her.

Stephen

The Department of Education's pay section are notoriously sh1te. My sister was doing sub teaching for a few months and was stuck on emergency tax the entire time despite giving them her P45. She got a full time job elsewhere until she goes back to college and months later the DoE still haven't returned her P45, so she's still on bloody emergency tax :rolleyes:

amen

I belive your employer has to be provide your p45 within 4 weeks of finishing work. Its an offense not to do so. Threaten them or ring Revenue they can sometimes put some pressure on

leeroybrown

Whenever I change job I always take the initiative and ring the Revenue with the new details straight away after I start. Doing it means that your tax is sorted out properly within two weeks. Other people at the same companies who didn't bother have tended to end up stuck on emergency tax.