new work complication

LUPE

I have just today got a new job and have only worked once previously. I was asked did i have a p45 and i said that i wasn't sure. I have just checked at home and and i dont have a p45 and found instead tax credit letters from the revenue commissioners which seemed to make out that i waas still employed by the old employer. The problem is that the other job was a couple of years ago and the place where i worked is now under new ownership, but the letters about the tax credits still have the previous owners name as the employer. I have to go in tomorrow morning to my new job and explain the situation. Can anybody tell me what position i am in and what i can do to sort it out? Is it very problematic and might it put my new job in jeopardy?

Help is very much appreciated

Thanks

culabula88

Just get the employers number from the new employer and ring the revenue with it. your new 2008 cert should be posted out to you with your new employers name on it and a copy will also forward to your employer also.

The new 2008 tax certs probably wont go to out until mid / start Feb

leeroybrown

No explanation is necessary. It's just the way things work. The Revenue don't know what your employment status is unless someone updates them (you, an employer, social welfare, etc).

A P45 is irrelevant if you have not already worked during the calendar year. If you just started work in 2008 or if you started work in 2007 but had not been paid previously in that year then it won't matter.

As culabula88 says, just get your new employer to give you their official number, then ring your regional tax office and ask them to update their records for you. A new certificate of tax credits should be automatically triggered by this. It's always good practice to do as soon as you start a new job as this as it speeds along the taxation process.

LUPE

thanks for the help guys, i was just worried as i'm not really up to speed on these kinda things, as you may have guessed(!)

thanks again!

LUPE

culabula88

only problem is that you will probably be on emergency tax until the new tax certs issue , but youll get all the tax back when you give in your cert.

So be it - you will have money saved to get back in tax when the cert comes through..

I suppose lots of people who are starting new jobs at this time of the year are on emergency tax while waiting for the new tax cert to come through..

leeroybrown

Don't worry too much about the emergency tax issue unless the cert is really slow arriving. Due to the way emergency tax works it doesn't really affect you for four weeks and only reaches it's maximum extent after nine weeks.