Holiday pay all gone to tax

snyperwolf

Hi guys,

I was promoted from a sales assistant job to a manager position a few months ago, so I went from hourly pay to a salary. I had worked up 40 holiday hours as a sales assistant so the company said they would just pay me for them as I was switching roles.

What ended up happening was it got paid in on top of my monthly pay and the amount I was taxed was actually like €50 MORE than the actual holiday pay, so I didn't even get a penny extra! I use the PAYE online but it's not very helpful.

Anything I can do to get some of this back? Seems really unfair.

L1011

Its likely that the pay brought you over the standard rate cutoff point for a single month and your employers payroll software did not realise that you had available cutoff unused from other months. You need to talk to HR / whoever does payroll as this should be correctable now; but otherwise you'll get it in if you do balancing statement after the end of the year.

Victor

snyperwolf wrote: »

the amount I was taxed was actually like €50 MORE than the actual holiday pay

But you were taxed on salary+holiday pay, not just holiday pay.

Did you get the days off?

chickenlicken2

Were you working part time and moved to full time? Possibly were A0 for PRSI and the additional amount pushed you into the A1 bracket.