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Underpaid tax

  • 26-01-2017 3:18pm
    #1
    rannerap
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,900 ✭✭✭


    I noticed in my wages I was down money, so contacted revenue. My tax credits have been cut massively as apparently I underpaid tax the last 3 years. I was not notified of this. They basically just decided to cut it from my wages without telling me. Can they do this? Another point, I returned my p21s to revenue last year and actually received a small refund due to over paying! Surely its not up to me to look after my taxation, it should be the company that I work for?


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  • #2
    relax carry on
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,113 ✭✭✭relax carry on


    rannerap wrote: »
    I noticed in my wages I was down money, so contacted revenue. My tax credits have been cut massively as apparently I underpaid tax the last 3 years. I was not notified of this. They basically just decided to cut it from my wages without telling me. Can they do this? Another point, I returned my p21s to revenue last year and actually received a small refund due to over paying! Surely its not up to me to look after my taxation, it should be the company that I work for?

    Unfortunately no. Ultimate responsibility rests with the individual.

    Have revenue explained exactly how the underpayment arose as its odd that you received a refund of tax on processing an end of year review.


  • #3
    Heisenburg81
    Closed Accounts Posts: 322 ✭✭Heisenburg81


    relax carry on wrote: »
    Unfortunately no. Ultimate responsibility rests with the individual.

    Have revenue explained exactly how the underpayment arose as its odd that you received a refund of tax on processing an end of year review.

    Revenue practice seems to be adjusting your credits in the second year following the year under review; eg underpayment in 2016 your credits will be adjusted in 2018.
    You would have been notified in any P21 statements for those years.
    They also seem to be refunding overpayments in the current year instead of adjusting credits where there are prior underpayments despite explicitly stating credits would be adjusted.


  • #4
    thesimpsons
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,696 ✭✭✭thesimpsons


    your employer can only work on the information he has been provided with and if, for whatever reason, you or revenue gave the wrong information, how would the employer know you were underpaying tax. Even if the employer did make an error, the responsibility still rests with the employee to ensure taxes are correctly deducted.


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