Emergency Taxed, What do I do?

Linoud

Hey guys, just started working near the middle of December. I signed up via Revenue and entered in my employers details, and only got taxed a small amount on my first pay for a week or two. Normally we're paid every 4 weeks so I figured I was fine, 15 euro tax out of 194 isn't much so I assumed it was normal.

4 weeks later, I'm being paid tomorrow and I see I'm being taxed way more than I should be, I obviously haven't set it up properly as I thought. What way do I go about sorting this out? Can I claim back the amount I was taxed this month since it was Emergency taxed? Just want to sort out the problem and hopefully get that sum of money, as it's a sizeable amount.

Let me know please, I'm absolutely clueless about all of this tax stuff.

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Talk to your payroll dept.
Have they received your tax credits from revenue?

If not, ET will apply/ It will balance out next payday if credits are received and applied.

Linoud

Ah grand. I'll do that on Monday so, I emailed my payroll department to see if they were forwarded a copy of my tax credits too, I received a copy of them myself on the 7th of January so that's why I assumed I had it all set up properly.

The_Conductor

Its possible that you are in fact being taxed properly- between income tax, PRSI, USC etc- its far from unusual for someone to pay over a third of their gross straight back to Revenue.........

aido79

Linoud wrote: »

Hey guys, just started working near the middle of December. I signed up via Revenue and entered in my employers details, and only got taxed a small amount on my first pay for a week or two. Normally we're paid every 4 weeks so I figured I was fine, 15 euro tax out of 194 isn't much so I assumed it was normal.

4 weeks later, I'm being paid tomorrow and I see I'm being taxed way more than I should be, I obviously haven't set it up properly as I thought. What way do I go about sorting this out? Can I claim back the amount I was taxed this month since it was Emergency taxed? Just want to sort out the problem and hopefully get that sum of money, as it's a sizeable amount.

Let me know please, I'm absolutely clueless about all of this tax stuff.

Why don't you use a tax calculator like this one to see how much tax you should be paying :
http://services.deloitte.ie/tc/

You will be paying tax for a long time so maybe it might be time to educate yourself on how much tax you should be paying.

Tigger

The_Conductor wrote: »

Its possible that you are in fact being taxed properly- between income tax, PRSI, USC etc- its far from unusual for someone to pay over a third of their gross straight back to Revenue.........

especially if you started working in Dec for the first time. You would have a yearscredits and not be taxed much at all