leaving Ireland, - tax refund, P50 and P45

Annascaul · 16-09-2017 07:09PM #1

I have left Ireland and at this point only hold a foreign address outside of Ireland. Having just received my P45, I would like to claim back my taxes for 2017. I have spent less than 2 months in Ireland in 2017. Is the P50 the only form to be supplied along the P45 plus a declaration not to live in Ireland for the remainder of the tax year? What are processing times like for such a claim?

Does it make any sense to use a company like "taxback.com"? My claim seems pretty straight forward.

tanit · 17-09-2017 08:03PM

Annascaul wrote: »

I have left Ireland and at this point only hold a foreign address outside of Ireland. Having just received my P45, I would like to claim back my taxes for 2017. I have spent less than 2 months in Ireland in 2017. Is the P50 the only form to be supplied along the P45 plus a declaration not to live in Ireland for the remainder of the tax year? What are processing times like for such a claim?

Does it make any sense to use a company like "taxback.com"? My claim seems pretty straight forward.

If you are registered for Revenue online services you can do everything yourself online and get the money back. That said any refunds of taxes will be either via a cheque or bank account and I'm not sure how Revenue will work sending money to a foreign account or sending cheques outside Ireland.
I would call them and ask them about your situation.

Annascaul · 18-09-2017 01:37PM

Thanks for the answer, however, I still don't seem to be able to do it online. Logging into Revenue.ie and "My Account" doesn't give me that option, and ROS Registration I don't have, nor don't I seem to be able to get it.

If it is under on revenue.ie and my account, it could only be under "PAYE Services" and "Manage my 2017 taxes", but again, there are no further options.

Please also remember, I am outside of the country.
Also, as far as I know, the form 12 is no longer in use?

relax carry on · 18-09-2017 02:43PM

Were you tax resident in Ireland in prior tax years? How long are you intending to spend outside of Ireland? Are you now working outside the state?

Annascaul · 18-09-2017 04:15PM

I didn't work in Ireland in the previous years. Two months in 2017 are the only time I worked in Ireland. As said, I don't intend to return to Ireland, most certainly not within this tax year.
I logged into revenue.ie again, but again, found no option to do this online, at least not with my log in credentials, with my current user ID. Unless somebody has live and practical experience and describes the process online step by step, then I can follow it. Otherwise, I'd say, it's the P50, and the P45, together with a self declaration of not returning to Ireland and that in the old fashioned mail. At this point I don't see any other process for this.
Companies like taxback seem to charge between 10 and 12 % for the whole matter.
By the way, in the UK this kind of process works totally online with the online account of the HMRC, without any printouts and signatures, money is transferred within 4 weeks.

Mycroft H · 18-09-2017 04:57PM

Annascaul wrote: »

I didn't work in Ireland in the previous years. Two months in 2017 are the only time I worked in Ireland. As said, I don't intend to return to Ireland, most certainly not within this tax year.
I logged into revenue.ie again, but again, found no option to do this online, at least not with my log in credentials, with my current user ID. Unless somebody has live and practical experience and describes the process online step by step, then I can follow it. Otherwise, I'd say, it's the P50, and the P45, together with a self declaration of not returning to Ireland and that in the old fashioned mail. At this point I don't see any other process for this.
Companies like taxback seem to charge between 10 and 12 % for the whole matter.
By the way, in the UK this kind of process works totally online with the online account of the HMRC, without any printouts and signatures, money is transferred within 4 weeks.

I moved to the UK last August.

I requested a P21 Balancing Statment on Revenue PAYE anytime in January of this year. I'd a tax refund made to my Irish Bank Account within a few weeks. Very quick and easy to do.

I don't think you can request a balancing statement until the tax year has finished.

For you that would be January 2018. I could be wrong however.

nokia3310 · 18-09-2017 08:56PM

You can scan the documents and submit them through myenquiries, the email service in myaccount. Revenue will process it then.

relax carry on · 18-09-2017 08:57PM

Annascaul wrote: »

I didn't work in Ireland in the previous years. Two months in 2017 are the only time I worked in Ireland. As said, I don't intend to return to Ireland, most certainly not within this tax year.
I logged into revenue.ie again, but again, found no option to do this online, at least not with my log in credentials, with my current user ID. Unless somebody has live and practical experience and describes the process online step by step, then I can follow it. Otherwise, I'd say, it's the P50, and the P45, together with a self declaration of not returning to Ireland and that in the old fashioned mail. At this point I don't see any other process for this.
Companies like taxback seem to charge between 10 and 12 % for the whole matter.
By the way, in the UK this kind of process works totally online with the online account of the HMRC, without any printouts and signatures, money is transferred within 4 weeks.

Your situation is most definitely not standard. If it was your have online solutions available to you. You were in the tax net for only 2 months. Your worldwide income for 2017 should be taken into account in order to determine what if any refund is due to you.

http://www.revenue.ie/en/jobs-and-pensions/tax-residence/tax-credits-for-non-residents.aspx

As the tax year runs January to December, you will have to wait untill the end of the tax year to sort your potential refund out.

leaving Ireland, - tax refund, P50 and P45

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