Possible tax implications?

Esoteric_

I wasn't sure whether to post this here, or in the work and job forum, so apologies if this is in the wrong place.

I'm pretty clueless about this situation, but I'll say everything I know about it, and hope you can help!

I'm working with company XXX. I was emergency taxed on the first week, my boss gave me the company name (XXX) and company PPS (1234567), to call up the tax office and sort out my credits. All simple.

Only, when I call the tax office, I find out that PPS number 1234567 does not match with company XXX. It matches with company QQQ, a completely separate entity.

I get my tax credit cert, which has me registered to company QQQ, with PPS 1234567.


My payslips, however, have me registered to company XXX, with a PPS number of 385768209!

The PPS numbers are completely different, so it could not have been a simple error in one digit!

I'm still having correct deductions taken from my wages, all documented on my payslip, but this seems dodgy to me.

Any idea why I'd be registered to a company that is not the one I work for, while receiving payslips with deductions for the company that I do indeed work for?!

Any possible tax implications? I don't want to end up owing tax!

Mr. Incognito

What? The p in pps stands for personal. It is YOUR pps no on your payslips, not your employers.

Your employers tax registration number may be on your payslips, I don't work in payroll so I don't know but if your PPS is right the rest doesn't matter.

It is common for companies to trade and be known under a totally separate name to their registered company name.

Esoteric_

Mr. Incognito wrote: »

What? The p
in pps stands for personal. It is YOUR pps no on your payslips, not
your employers.

Your employers tax registration number may be on your payslips, I don't
work in payroll so I don't know but if your PPS is right the rest
doesn't matter.

It is common for companies to trade and be known under a totally
separate name to their registered company name.

Apologies, I'm talking about the company registration number then, I was just told it was a pps for the company.

So I'm listed with the tax office as working for one company, with one company registration number, while my payslips say i work for another company with another registration number.

Mr. Incognito

If there is an issue their end of year filing will iron it out. You don't need to be Sherlock. It has no implications for you in any form.

thesimpsons

I wonder has there been an error in the compnay's registration number - did you take it down wrong or did Revenue make an error in it? You should probably check with your employer that they did get a tax credit cert for you. If they didn't get one, then its possible you were put against an incorrect employer and that your current employer won't get the correct cert and you will remain on emergency tax too long.

Your payslips will have your correct PPS number cos that's what your employer will be using - this is correct. You payslip will even have the correct employer Registration number - this would be correct too as its the correct number registered to your employer. What isn't correct is your Tax Credit Cert so to me that's where the problem lies - you have been put against the incorrect employer.

I might be wrong but its worth getting it checked with your employer and revenue.

Esoteric_

thesimpsons wrote: »

I wonder has there been an error in the compnay's registration number - did you take it down wrong or did Revenue make an error in it? You should probably check with your employer that they did get a tax credit cert for you. If they didn't get one, then its possible you were put against an incorrect employer and that your current employer won't get the correct cert and you will remain on emergency tax too long.

Your payslips will have your correct PPS number cos that's what your employer will be using - this is correct. You payslip will even have the correct employer Registration number - this would be correct too as its the correct number registered to your employer. What isn't correct is your Tax Credit Cert so to me that's where the problem lies - you have been put against the incorrect employer.

I might be wrong but its worth getting it checked with your employer and revenue.

My employer hasn't gotten back to me yet about whether or not he got a tax cert for me. However, I got one in the name of the company I do not work for. The registration number, I definitely didn't take down wrong, he texted it to me and to my manager. My manager is also registered with Revenue as working for the wrong company, so I don't think it's an error on their side, either, because surely it wouldn't have happened twice (once for each of us)?

So, as it stands, our payslips give us the correct company name and registration number, but our tax certs give us the wrong company name, with the registration number our employer told us to give to Revenue. The numbers of both companies are vastly different, so he can't have texted us the wrong registration number by mistake. :-/

Esoteric_

Having just done a quick search on solocheck.ie, I've found that the company on my tax cert form is a company in a completely separate industry, based on the other side of the country. But it IS the registration my boss gave to all of us to use. :-/

thesimpsons

sounds like a strange one in that case, time to ring Revenue, tell them the name and company registration number of company you are working for, tell them name and company registration number on the tax credit certificate you have been given and ask them for advice. have always found Revenue to be very helpful once you get through.