What to do

Mldj

Hi everyone,
Sorry if I'm posting this in the wrong place, mods feel free to move me.

So I started working for the first time over the summer as a supervisor at a Gaeltacht summer camp. I was paid, etc. and then a few days later I got a letter from revenue telling me to register for an account online so they can issue me with a tax credit certificate. I did thay and I'm currently waiting for the certificate to come in the post.

In the meantime, I'm starting a job in a shop next week and my new employer is requesting a P45 form from my previous employer. When I contacted the gaeltacht I was told that I didn't need a P45 form.

What do I do?

Calahonda52

You are not obliged to show the P45, all they need is your PPS number and you will go on full tax which will be sorted out in due course with Revenue

wiggle16

The tax credit cert will not come in the post - you need to check the documents section of your MyAccount profile.

You need to do the following:

Register the shop as your employer on your MyAccount.

Call Revenue and request to be put on a cumulative cert - this will take you off emergency tax, and since you were only working over the summer it's unlikely that you used much of your credits or any of your rate band (I won't bore you with the details of that). If you do not register the shop with Revenue, they will not receive a tax cert and will not know how to tax you, and so you will be put on emergency tax until they either get a P45 from your former employer or a cumulative cert from Revenue (either of which will tell them how to tax you).

The summer camp DOES have to give you a P45, contrary to what they told you (unless you were being paid cash in hand or something) but it's possible that the P45 has already been remitted to Revenue.